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multi-carbon

multi-carbon adjective: describing any compound (or ring within a compound) containing more than one carbon atom.

Adjective

multi-carbon (not comparable)

  1. Describing any compound (or ring within a compound) containing more than one carbon atom

Origin of multi-carbon

From multi- + carbon.

Questions about multi-carbon

What does multi-carbon mean?
Multi-carbon means describing any compound (or ring within a compound) containing more than one carbon atom.
What part of speech is multi-carbon?
Multi-carbon is an adjective.

Words near multi-carbon in the dictionary

  1. multi-box
  2. multi-boxes
  3. multi-byte
  4. multi-camera
  5. multi-cancer
  6. multi-carbon
  7. multi-celled
  8. multi-cellular
  9. multi-center
  10. multi-centre
  11. multi-century

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