tetrachloroethylene

Questions about tetrachloroethylene

What does tetrachloroethylene mean?

tetrachloroethylene means "anthelmintic agent used against hookworm and other nematodes".

How many syllables are in tetrachloroethylene?

tetrachloroethylene has 7 syllables and divides as te-trach-lo-ro-e-thy-lene 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.

What is another word for tetrachloroethylene?

Close synonyms include tetrachlorethylene, ethylene tetrachloride, carbon dichloride. 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 tetrachloroethylene a common word?

tetrachloroethylene 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.