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haloid

haloid adjective: resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides.

Adjective

haloid (not comparable)

  1. Resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides.
    • haloid salt

Noun

haloid (plural haloids)

  1. Any haloid substance.

haloid meaning in Tamil

haloid in Tamil

உப்பினம், உப்பினஞ்சார்ந்த

Forms of haloid

pluralhaloids

Origin of haloid

From halo- + -oid.

Questions about haloid

What does haloid mean?
Haloid means resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides.
What is haloid in Tamil?
Haloid in Tamil is உப்பினம், உப்பினஞ்சார்ந்த. See Haloid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is haloid?
Haloid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near haloid in the dictionary

  1. halohydrins
  2. halohydrocarbon
  3. halohydrocarbons
  4. halohydroxylation
  5. halohydroxylations
  6. haloid
  7. haloids
  8. haloimide
  9. haloimides
  10. haloing
  11. haloketone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haloid (page history and authors); haloid (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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