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locants

locants is the plural of locant.

Meaning of locant

Noun

locant (plural locants)

  1. That part of the name of a compound (often a letter or number) that describes the position of an atom, residue or functional group.
    • The 2 in hexan-2-one is a locant.

Questions about locants

What is locants the plural of?
Locants is the plural of locant.

Words near locants in the dictionary

  1. localness
  2. locals
  3. localvore
  4. localvores
  5. locant
  6. locants
  7. locao
  8. locarnise
  9. locarnised
  10. locarnises
  11. locarnising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: locants (page history and authors); locant (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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