polyvinyl acetate

1. 1.

   a vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives

   SynonymsPVA

   Broadervinyl polymer

Questions about polyvinyl acetate

What does polyvinyl acetate mean?

polyvinyl acetate means "a vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives".

What is another word for polyvinyl acetate?

Close synonyms include PVA. 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 polyvinyl acetate a common word?

polyvinyl acetate 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.