polyvinyl resin

1. 1.

   a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the vinyl group

   Synonymsvinyl polymervinyl resin

   Broadersynthetic resin

   Narrowerpolyvinyl acetatepolyvinyl chloridestyrene

Questions about polyvinyl resin

What does polyvinyl resin mean?

polyvinyl resin means "a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the vinyl group".

What is another word for polyvinyl resin?

Close synonyms include vinyl polymer, vinyl resin. 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 resin a common word?

polyvinyl resin 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.