cyanoacrylate
noun
cyanoacrylate is a noun meaning “Any of a class of esters of cyanoacrylic acid that are used as instant adhesives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-A-N-O-A-C-R-Y-L-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyanoacrylate is cyanoacrylates.
What does cyanoacrylate mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of esters of cyanoacrylic acid that are used as instant adhesives.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cyanoacrylate
- cyanoacrylates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyanoacrylate?
Cyanoacrylate appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate cyanoacrylate?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cyanoacrylate: CA.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cyanoacrylate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense class of esters of cyanoacrylic acid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cyanoacrylate |
| Portuguese | cianoacrilato |
| Spanish | cianoacrilato |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cyanoacrylate come from?
From cyano- + acrylate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).