methylene radical

1. 1.

   the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane

   Synonymsmethylene groupmethylene

   Broadergroup

Questions about methylene radical

What does methylene radical mean?

methylene radical means "the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane".

What is another word for methylene radical?

Close synonyms include methylene group, methylene. 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 methylene radical a common word?

methylene radical 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.