POLYURETHANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polyurethane mean? 

• POLYURETHANE (noun)
  The noun POLYURETHANE has 1 sense:

1. any of various polymers containing the urethane radical; a wide variety of synthetic forms are made and used as adhesives or plastics or paints or rubber

  Familiarity information: POLYURETHANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYURETHANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various polymers containing the urethane radical; a wide variety of synthetic forms are made and used as adhesives or plastics or paints or rubber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

polyurethan; polyurethane

Hypernyms ("polyurethane" 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)

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

polyfoam; polyurethane foam (a foam made by adding water to polyurethane plastics)

 Context examples 

The researchers evaluated the adhesion capacity and viability of healthy chondrocytes extracted from patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, screening over 380 different polyacrylate and polyurethane polymers.

(Scientists design a new hydrogel that helps regenerate cartilage, University of Granada)

BBMP is used in industry as a flame retardant in unsaturated polyester resins, in molded products and in rigid polyurethane foam.

(BBMP, NCI Thesaurus)