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-yne

suffix

Etymology

Contracted from the suffix -ylene of acetylene

Definitions

  1. An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one triple bond

    An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one triple bond; an alkyne.

  2. A polymer derived from an alkyne.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -yne. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA