polypropylene

1. 1.

   a polymer of propylene used as a thermoplastic molding material

   Synonymspolypropene

   Broaderplastic

Other forms of polypropylene

plural

polypropylenes·

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.

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What does polypropylene mean?

polypropylene means "a polymer of propylene used as a thermoplastic molding material".