"amphetamine" meaning in English

See amphetamine in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /æmˈfɛt.ə.miːn/, /æmˈfɛt.əm.ɪn/ Audio: en-us-amphetamine.ogg Forms: amphetamines [plural]
Etymology: Shortened form of a(lpha-)m(ethyl)ph(en)eth(yl)amine. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} amphetamine (countable and uncountable, plural amphetamines)
  1. (organic chemistry, proper) The racemic freebase of 1-phenylpropan-2-amine; an equal parts mixture of levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine in their pure amine forms. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Organic compounds
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  2. (informal) Any mixture of the two amphetamine enantiomers, dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine. Tags: countable, informal, uncountable
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  3. (informal, nonstandard) Referring to a substituted amphetamine; a member of the amphetamine class of chemicals. Tags: countable, informal, nonstandard, uncountable Categories (topical): Recreational drugs
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  4. (medicine, pharmacology) A potent central nervous system stimulant of the phenethylamine chemical class that is used to treat ADHD, narcolepsy, and obesity. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine, Pharmaceutical drugs
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: amfetamine Translations (amphetamine): أَمْفِيتامين [masculine] (Arabic), амфетамин (amfetamin) [masculine] (Bulgarian), amfetamina [feminine] (Catalan), 安非他明 (ānfēitāmíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 安非他命 (ānfēitāmìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 苯丙胺 (běnbǐng'àn) (Chinese Mandarin), amfetamin [masculine] (Czech), amfetamine [feminine] (Dutch), amfetamino (Esperanto), amfetamiin (Estonian), amfetamiini (Finnish), amphétamine [feminine] (French), anfetamina [feminine] (Galician), Amphetamin [neuter] (German), Benzedrin [neuter] (German), αμφεταμίνη (amfetamíni) [feminine] (Greek), amfetamin (Hungarian), amfetamín [neuter] (Icelandic), amfetamina (Indonesian), anfetamina [feminine] (Italian), amfetamina [feminine] (Italian), anfetammina [feminine] (Italian), アンフェタミン (anfetamin) (Japanese), 암페타민 (ampetamin) (Korean), ဂဥုဲချေံ (Mon), amfetamina [feminine] (Polish), anfetamina [feminine] (Portuguese), amfetamină [feminine] (Romanian), амфетами́н (amfetamín) [masculine] (Russian), anfetamina [feminine] (Spanish), amfetamin [neuter] (Swedish), amfetamin (Turkish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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