polymethyl methacrylate

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   a transparent plastic used as a substitute for glass

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Questions about polymethyl methacrylate

What does polymethyl methacrylate mean?

polymethyl methacrylate means "a transparent plastic used as a substitute for glass".

Is polymethyl methacrylate a common word?

polymethyl methacrylate 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.