azo
azo adjective: azote, nitrogen.
Adjective
azo (not comparable)
- azote, nitrogen
- Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.
- Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group (-N=N-) uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene etc.
Noun capitalized: AZO
AZO (uncountable)
- Initialism of aluminum-doped zinc oxide.
Words formed from azo
- azimine
- azo colour
- azo compound
- azodicarbonyl
- azo dye
- azo dyestuff
- azoindoxyl
- azole
- azo pigmentpotassic-arfvedsonite
- azo violet
- azoxy
- diazo
- diazoalkyl
- disazo
- hydrazine
- monoazo
- polyazo
- trisazo
Phrases with azo
Words that rhyme with azo
Questions about azo
- What does azo mean?
- Azo means azote, nitrogen.
- What part of speech is azo?
- Azo can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near azo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: azo (page history and authors); AZO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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