MEANING
A substance composed of large molecules built from repeating structural units.
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- synthetic polymer
- polymer chain
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The polymer softened under the test conditions.
Long polymer chains formed the material’s framework.
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- polymer
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular polymer; plural polymers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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