polyurethane foam

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   a foam made by adding water to polyurethane plastics

   Synonymspolyfoam

   Broaderpolyurethane

Questions about polyurethane foam

What does polyurethane foam mean?

polyurethane foam means "a foam made by adding water to polyurethane plastics".

What is another word for polyurethane foam?

Close synonyms include polyfoam. 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 polyurethane foam a common word?

polyurethane foam 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.