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SILICONE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures; used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation

Synonyms:

silicone; silicone polymer

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("silicone" is a kind of...):

polymer (a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers)

siloxane (any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms)

Meronyms (substance of "silicone"):

atomic number 14; Si; silicon (a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silicone"):

bouncing putty (a soft elastic silicone polymer that increases in elasticity with the application of force; used in the center of golf balls and as shock-absorbent padding)

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