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polymer.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
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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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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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