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TFE

TFE is the initialism of tetrafluoroethylene.

TFE is the initialism of trifluoroethanol.

Meaning of tetrafluoroethylene

Noun

tetrafluoroethylene (countable and uncountable, plural tetrafluoroethylenes)

  1. The gaseous unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbon, F₂C=CF₂, that is used as a monomer in the production of polytetrafluoroethylene
    Synonyms:
    TFE

Meaning of trifluoroethanol

Noun

trifluoroethanol (plural trifluoroethanols)

  1. Any of several isomers of an alcohol formally derived from ethanol by replacing three hydrogen atoms by those of fluorine, but especially 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol
    Synonyms:
    TFE, trifluoroethyl alcohol

Words formed from TFE

Questions about TFE

What is TFE the initialism of?
TFE is the initialism of tetrafluoroethylene.

Words near TFE in the dictionary

  1. TFC
  2. TFCD
  3. TFCMA
  4. TFD
  5. TFDA
  6. TFE
  7. TFEU
  8. TFG
  9. TfGM
  10. TFH
  11. TFHs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TFE (page history and authors); tetrafluoroethylene (page history and authors); trifluoroethanol (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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