synthetic resin

Questions about synthetic resin

What does synthetic resin mean?

synthetic resin means "a resin having a polymeric structure; especially a resin in the raw state; used chiefly in plastics".

Is synthetic resin a common word?

synthetic 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.