antifouling paint

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   a paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces

   Broaderpaint

Questions about antifouling paint

What does antifouling paint mean?

antifouling paint means "a paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces".

Is antifouling paint a common word?

antifouling paint 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.