NITRILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrile mean? 

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

1. any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITRILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

cyanide; nitril; nitrile

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

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

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

acrylonitrile; propenonitrile; vinyl cyanide (a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene)

 Context examples 

Titan’s dirty orange color comes from a mixture of hydrocarbons (molecules that contain hydrogen and carbon) and nitrogen-carrying chemicals called nitriles.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The insoluble compounds, such as nitriles and benzene, sink to the sea floor.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

Calcium oxide is mainly used in nickel-cadmium batteries, but is also used in electroplating, in the production of plastics and nitrile rubbers and as a nematocide and ascaricide in swine.

(Cadmium Oxide, NCI Thesaurus)