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heteric

heteric adjective: involving idiosyncratic rules of spelling, rather than phonetic spelling.

Adjective

heteric (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Involving idiosyncratic rules of spelling, rather than phonetic spelling.
  2. Composed of a random arrangement of structural units.
    • a heteric polymer; a heteric mixed chain

Origin of heteric

From hetero- + -ic.

Words formed from heteric

Questions about heteric

What does heteric mean?
Heteric means involving idiosyncratic rules of spelling, rather than phonetic spelling.
What part of speech is heteric?
Heteric is an adjective.

Words near heteric in the dictionary

  1. heterecious
  2. heterenchelyid
  3. heterenchelyids
  4. hetereodimerize
  5. hetereogeneity
  6. heteric
  7. heterically
  8. hetericism
  9. heteritic
  10. hetero
  11. hetero marriage

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