trimer
noun
trimer is a noun meaning “An oligomer composed of three monomers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-M-E-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of trimer is trimers.
What does trimer mean?
noun
- 1
An oligomer composed of three monomers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce trimer?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-trimer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of trimer
- trimers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is trimer?
Trimer appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).
Trimer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense molecule:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | trímero |
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 trimer come from?
From tri- + -mer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).