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homopolymer

noun

homopolymer is a noun meaning “a polymer formed from a single type of monomer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-M-O-P-O-L-Y-M-E-R, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of homopolymer is homopolymers.

What does homopolymer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    a polymer formed from a single type of monomer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of homopolymer

  • homopolymers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is homopolymer?

Homopolymer appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

Where does homopolymer come from?

From homo- + polymer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).