acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene

1. 1.

   any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances

   SynonymsABS

   Broaderplastic

Questions about acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene

What does acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene mean?

acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene means "any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances".

How many syllables are in acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene?

acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene has 12 syllables: a-cry-lo-ni-tri-le--bu-ta-die-ne--sty-rene. The stress falls on "ne-".

What is another word for acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene?

Close synonyms include ABS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene a common word?

acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.