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COUPLING AGENT

Specialty Definition: COUPLING AGENT

DomainDefinition

Fine Arts

Chemical used in colour development where it combines with certain by-products of the development process to form a dye. Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

A material added to herbicides when the solubility of the toxic ingredient is not suited to the dilutent, or to the filming agent, such as use of alcohol and aromatic oils in pentachlorophenol formulation. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COUPLING AGENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

silane coupling agent

6

coupling agent

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COUPLING AGENT

Language Translations for "COUPLING AGENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

oploesningsmiddel (co-solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, solvent, thinner). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

oplosmiddel (co-solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, solubilizer, solubilizing agent, solvent, thinner), bindmiddel (adhesive medium, binder, binding agent, bindingagent, bond, bonding agent, cement, co-solvent, excipient, extender, matrix, thickener, thickeners, thickening agent, thickening agents, vehicle). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

liuotin (emulgator, solvent). (various references)

   

French

  

coupleur (coupler), copulant (coupler), formateur de colorants (coupler), agent solvant associé (co-solvent). (various references)

   

German

  

Loesungsmittel (co-solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, solvent, thinner), Bindemittel (binder, binders, cement, thickener, thickening). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνδιαλύτης (cosolvent, co-solvent). (various references)

   

Italian

  

solvente aggiunto (co-solvent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouplingcay agentay

   

Portuguese

  

co-solvente (cosolvent, co-solvent), agente associado (co-solvent). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cosolvente (co-solvent), disolvente (dissolve, dissolvent, menstruum, resolvent, thinner). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lösningsmedel (dissolvent, solvent), bindemedel (adhesive, binder, vehicle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COUPLING AGENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-p-t-u"

-3 letters: centupling, congealing, congenital, copulating, elongating, glauconite, nucleating, nucleation, outleaping, peculating, peculation.

-4 letters: autogenic, cingulate, congenial, continual, cupolaing, gluconate, inculpate, inoculant, inoculate, octupling, outpacing, plutonian, poignance, uncoating.

-5 letters: agenting, angeling, antipole, cageling, canoeing, clanging, cleaning, cleating, clouting, coapting, conepatl, congaing, continua, continue, copulate, countian, counting, coupling, cultigen, cupeling, eggplant, enacting, encaging, enlacing, galoping, ganglion.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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