azine

American  

[az-een, -in, ey-zeen, ey-zin] / ˈæz in, -ɪn, ˈeɪ zin, ˈeɪ zɪn /

noun

Chemistry.

1. any of a group of six-membered heterocyclic compounds containing one or more nitrogen atoms in the ring, the number of nitrogen atoms present being indicated by a prefix, as in diazine or triazine.

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azine British  

/ ˈeɪziːn, -zɪn /

noun

1. any organic compound having a six-membered ring containing at least one nitrogen atom See also diazine triazine

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azine Scientific  

/ ăz′ēn′,ā′zēn′ /

1. Any of various organic compounds, such as pyridine or pyrimidine, that have a ring structure like that of benzene but with one or more carbon atoms replaced by a nitrogen atom. Azines are heterocyclic compounds.

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Etymology

Origin of azine

First recorded in 1885–90; az- + -ine ²

Example Sentences

Rolling Stone, the San Fran cisco-based rock-'n'-roll newspaper-mag azine, is doing well by doing just that.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the latest issue of the official mag azine China Reconstructs, Maritime Historian Fang Zhongpu purports to solve the puzzle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, Critic Philip Nobile, in his journalistic study Intellectual Skywriting, found the mag azine a prime exemplar of radical chic.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trouble with Urban Cowboy is that Bridges and Latham have not devised a dramatic structure faithful to the reality Latham reported with spare detachment in his article in Esquire mag azine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The azine greens, also, appear tolerably fast on cotton and on silk, but although possessing some body of color, after exposure, the original dark green has changed to a decided drab.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various