vinyl resin

1. 1.

   a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the vinyl group

   Synonymsvinyl polymerpolyvinyl resin

   Broadersynthetic resin

   Narrowerpolyvinyl acetatepolyvinyl chloridestyrene

Questions about vinyl resin

What does vinyl resin mean?

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

What is another word for vinyl resin?

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

vinyl 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.