hexanedioic acid

1. 1.

   a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon

   Synonymsadipic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about hexanedioic acid

What does hexanedioic acid mean?

hexanedioic acid means "a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon".

What is another word for hexanedioic acid?

Close synonyms include adipic acid. 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 hexanedioic acid a common word?

hexanedioic acid 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.