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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
acrylamide is a noun meaning "a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals". It carries one recorded sense.
a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals
“they claimed that acrylamide is produced when certain carbohydrates are baked or fried at high temperatures”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for acrylamide come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.