ethoxyethane

Other forms of ethoxyethane

plural

ethoxyethanes·

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.

Questions about ethoxyethane

What does ethoxyethane mean?

ethoxyethane means "a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic".

How many syllables are in ethoxyethane?

ethoxyethane has 4 syllables and divides as e-thox-ye-thane 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 ethoxyethane?

Close synonyms include ether, divinyl ether, vinyl ether, diethyl ether, ethyl ether. 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 ethoxyethane a common word?

ethoxyethane 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.