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Polybutylene

Definition: Polybutylene

Polybutylene

Noun

1. A polymer of butylene; used in lubricants and synthetic rubber.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Polybutylene

DomainDefinitions

Industry

A material composed of polymers of butylene. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Polybutylene

Synonym: polybutene (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: polybutene (chemical industry, meteorology & standards).

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Commercial Usage: Polybutylene

DomainTitle

Books

  • Awwa Standard for Polybutylene (Pb Pressure Pipe, Tubing, and Fittings, 1/2 In. Through 3 In., for Water/pbN 43902) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Polybutylene

"Polybutylene" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Polybutylene" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Polybutylene

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

polybutylene

108

polybutylene pipe

50

polybutylene plumbing

20

piping polybutylene

9

lawsuit polybutylene

5

polybutylene terephthalate

4

action class polybutylene

3

lawsuit pipe polybutylene

2

class pipe polybutylene

2

pipe polybutylene repair

2

action class pipe polybutylene

2
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Modern Translation: Polybutylene

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

Chinese 

  

聚丁烯 (polybutene). (various references)

   

French

  

polytéréphtalate de butylène (polybutylene terephthalate), PBTP (polybutylene terephthalate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olybutylenepay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Polybutylene

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-l-n-o-p-t-u-y-y"

-3 letters: opulently.

-4 letters: butylene, polytene, polyteny, potbelly, teenybop.

-5 letters: bluntly, bullpen, eelpout, eyebolt, neotype, opulent, outyell, outyelp, pollute, polyene, toluene.

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Alternative Orthography: Polybutylene


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 6C 79 62 75 74 79 6C 65 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01101100 01111001 01100010 01110101 01110100 01111001 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#108 &#121 &#98 &#117 &#116 &#121 &#108 &#101 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 006C 0079 0062 0075 0074 0079 006C 0065 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508178916887869178718071

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Polybutylene"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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