polyvinyl-formaldehyde

1. 1.

   a polymer of vinyl formaldehyde

   Broaderplastic

Questions about polyvinyl-formaldehyde

What does polyvinyl-formaldehyde mean?

polyvinyl-formaldehyde means "a polymer of vinyl formaldehyde".

How many syllables are in polyvinyl-formaldehyde?

polyvinyl-formaldehyde has 8 syllables and divides as po-ly-vi-nyl--for-mal-de-hyde under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is polyvinyl-formaldehyde a common word?

polyvinyl-formaldehyde 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.