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dioxygen

noun
/daɪˈɒksɪdʒən/

Etymology

From di- + oxygen.

  1. derived from ὀξύς — “sharp”
  2. borrowed from oxygène
  3. formed as dioxygen — “di- + oxygen”

Definitions

  1. Diatomic oxygen

    Diatomic oxygen: the normal allotrope of oxygen, having two atoms per molecule.

    • Meronym: oxygen (strict sense)

  2. Two atoms of oxygen in a molecule.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dioxygen. 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