polyvinyl
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of polyvinyl
Example Sentences
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Customers are increasingly being lured by brands like TimberTech, which dispense with wood altogether in favor of polyvinyl chloride patterned to resemble mahogany, teak, or hickory.
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
They made metallic glass nanotubes with an average wall thickness of just 20nm, and fabricated nanosheets from different substrates, such as sodium chloride, polyvinyl alcohol and conventional photoresist substrates, with different levels of oxygen concentration.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024
Other plastics confirmed in the water in microscopic quantities include polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride and polymethyl methacrylate, also known as plexiglass.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2024
The bill would also phase out a list of “problematic and unnecessary” types of plastic and plastic additives, including polyvinyl chloride, a kind of plastic whose main ingredient is a human carcinogen.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023
He was cast from a real person, then rendered in polyvinyl and an auto-body filler composite called Bondo.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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