butylene

Questions about butylene

What does butylene mean?

butylene means "any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers".

How many syllables are in butylene?

butylene has 3 syllables and divides as bu-ty-lene under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for butylene?

Close synonyms include butene. 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 butylene a common word?

butylene is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.