Word Meanings - TRIMETHYLENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H6, isomeric with propylene and obtained from it indirectly. It is the base of a series of compounds analogous to the aromatic hydrocarbons.

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• HYDROCARBON
  A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
• PROPYLENE
  A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.
• ISOMERIC
  Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• GASEOUS
  1. In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid. 2. Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." Sir J. Stephen.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• SERIES MOTOR
  A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
• SERIES
  Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr.
• SERIES TURNS
  The turns in a series circuit.
• HYDROCARBONATE
  A hydrocarbon. A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.
• INDIRECTLY
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.
• HYDROCARBONACEOUS
  Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• SERIES WINDING
  A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• ANALOGOUS
  Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J.
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• AROMATIC; AROMATICAL
  Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong- scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam. Aromatic compound , one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams,
• AROMATIC
  A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon spices.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• ULTRAGASEOUS
  Having the properties exhibited by gases under very low pressures . Matter under this condition, which has been termed the fourth state of matter, is sometimes called radiant matter.
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.