MEANING
A polymer that softens when heated and hardens when cooled without permanently changing its basic chemical structure.
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- thermoplastic polymer
- thermoplastic casing
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The thermoplastic casing softened near the heater.
They remolded the thermoplastic component.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a technical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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