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bicyclic

bicyclic adjective: having two cycles.

Adjective

bicyclic (not comparable)

  1. Having two cycles.
  2. Having two rings of atoms in the molecule; the rings may be fused, as in naphthalene, or separate, as in biphenyl.
    • […] substitution of a carboxylate would be expected to destabilize the dritterionic mesomer that contributes to the singlet valence bond description as the benzyne geometry becomes more bicyclic.2003, Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 125, page 134
    • These geometries are almost reversed in the triplets. The 1,3-borazyne (III) shows more bicyclic character than the corresponding m-benzyne2006, PJ Fazen, LA Burke, “Theoretical studies of borazynes and azaborines”, in Inorganic chemistry, ACS Publications

Noun

bicyclic (plural bicyclics)

  1. (physical) A bicyclic compound.

Forms of bicyclic

pluralbicyclics

Origin of bicyclic

From bi- + cyclic.

Words formed from bicyclic

Questions about bicyclic

What does bicyclic mean?
Bicyclic means having two cycles.
What part of speech is bicyclic?
Bicyclic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bicyclic in the dictionary

  1. bicyclers
  2. bicycles
  3. bicyclette
  4. bicyclettes
  5. bicyclian
  6. bicyclic
  7. bicyclical
  8. bicyclics
  9. bicycling
  10. bicycling monarchies
  11. bicycling monarchy

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