nitrile

Questions about nitrile

What does nitrile mean?

nitrile means "any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN".

How many syllables are in nitrile?

nitrile has 3 syllables and divides as ni-tri-le 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 nitrile?

Close synonyms include nitril, cyanide. 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 nitrile a common word?

nitrile 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.