polyethylene terephthalate

English

Etymology

From polyethylene +‎ terephthalate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

polyethylene terephthalate

1. (organic chemistry) A thermoplastic resin of the polyester family used particularly in the manufacture of plastic bottles (PET) and fabrics (Terylene).

   Synonyms: PET, PET-E, PETE, PET-P, PETP (initialisms)

   Hypernym: polyester

   Near-synonym: ♳

Derived terms

• PETase

Translations

type of polyester

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: politereftalat d'etilè m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聚對苯二甲酸乙二酯 / 聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯 (jùduìběn èrjiǎsuān yǐ'èrzhǐ)

• Dutch: polyethyleentereftalaat n
• Finnish: polyetyleenitereftalaatti
• French: polytéréphtalate d’éthylène (fr) m, PET (fr) m, polyéthylène téréphtalate
• German: Polyethylenterephthalat (de) n
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: פוליאתילן טרפתאלט m (polietilén tereftalát)
• Italian: polietilene tereftalato m
• Japanese: ポリエチレンテレフタラート (ja), PET (ja) (PET)
• Russian: полиэтиле́нтерефтала́т (ru) m (polietiléntereftalát), ПЭТФ m (PETF), ПЭТ (ru) m (PET)
• Spanish: tereftalato de polietileno m, politereftalato de etileno m
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: polietilen tereftalat