propanone

1. 1.

   the simplest ketone; a highly flammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics

   Synonymsacetonedimethyl ketone

   Broaderketonesolvent

Other forms of propanone

plural

propanones·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about propanone

What does propanone mean?

propanone means "the simplest ketone; a highly flammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics".

How many syllables are in propanone?

propanone has 3 syllables: pro-pa-none. The stress falls on "pro".

What is another word for propanone?

Close synonyms include acetone, dimethyl ketone. 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 propanone a common word?

propanone 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.