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ductlike

ductlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a duct.

Adjective

ductlike (comparative more ductlike, superlative most ductlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a duct.
    • But this cavern almost measureless to the eye, stuffed as it is with an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metal, eight-story wheels of gold fan-shape boxes, thousands of miles of wire and fat ductlike coils, echoes with the shriek of power tools, the whine of pumps and cranes, beeps and clanks from wrenches...2007 May 15, Dennis Overbye, “A Giant Takes On Physics’ Biggest Questions”, in New York Times

Forms of ductlike

comparativemore ductlike
superlativemost ductlike

Origin of ductlike

From duct + -like.

Questions about ductlike

What does ductlike mean?
Ductlike means resembling or characteristic of a duct.
What part of speech is ductlike?
Ductlike is an adjective.

Words near ductlike in the dictionary

  1. ductions
  2. ductless
  3. ductless gland
  4. ductless glands
  5. ductlessness
  6. ductlike
  7. ducto-
  8. ductographies
  9. ductography
  10. ductolobular
  11. ductopenia

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