polyvinyl chloride

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   a polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables

   SynonymsPVC

   Broadervinyl polymer

Questions about polyvinyl chloride

What does polyvinyl chloride mean?

polyvinyl chloride means "a polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables".

What is another word for polyvinyl chloride?

Close synonyms include PVC. 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 chloride a common word?

polyvinyl chloride 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.