methyl ethyl ketone

1. 1.

   colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid

   Synonymsbutanone

   Broaderketone

Questions about methyl ethyl ketone

What does methyl ethyl ketone mean?

methyl ethyl ketone means "colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid".

What is another word for methyl ethyl ketone?

Close synonyms include butanone. 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 methyl ethyl ketone a common word?

methyl ethyl ketone 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.