MEANING
To combine molecules into larger polymer chains or networks, or to undergo that process.
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Words that belong together
- polymerize a resin
- a polymerizing mixture
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The resin polymerized after the component had been aligned.
The fictional organism secreted a material that polymerized into a flexible shell.
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Word forms
- Base
- polymerize
- Past tense
- polymerized
- Past participle
- polymerized
- Present participle
- polymerizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- polymerize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are polymerizing
- Present perfect
- have/has polymerized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been polymerizing
- Past
- polymerized
- Past continuous
- was/were polymerizing
- Past perfect
- had polymerized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been polymerizing
- Future
- will polymerize
- Future continuous
- will be polymerizing
- Future perfect
- will have polymerized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been polymerizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: polymerize; polymerizes; polymerized; polymerized; polymerizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: polymerizes.
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