polymerization

1. 1.

   a chemical process that combines several monomers to form a polymer or polymeric compound

   Synonymspolymerisation

   Broaderchemical process

Other forms of polymerization

plural

polymerizations·

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 polymerization

What does polymerization mean?

polymerization means "a chemical process that combines several monomers to form a polymer or polymeric compound".

How many syllables are in polymerization?

polymerization has 6 syllables: po-ly-me-ri-za-tion. The stress falls on "za". In IPA it is /ˌpɑlɪmɚəˈzeɪʃən/.

What is another word for polymerization?

Close synonyms include polymerisation. 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 polymerization a common word?

polymerization 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.

What rhymes with polymerization?

94 words rhyme with polymerization. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.