"octane" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɒk.teɪn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-octane.wav [Southern-England] Forms: octanes [plural]
enPR: ŏk'tān Etymology: octo- + -ane Etymology templates: {{confix|en|octo|ane}} octo- + -ane Head templates: {{en-noun}} octane (plural octanes)
  1. (organic chemistry) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C₈H₁₈) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents. Categories (topical): Organic compounds, Petroleum Translations (isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons): أُوكْتَان (ʔuktān) (Arabic), октан (oktan) [masculine] (Bulgarian), အောက်တိန်း (auktin:) (Burmese), octà [masculine] (Catalan), 辛烷 (xīnwàn) (Chinese Mandarin), oktan [masculine] (Czech), octaan (Dutch), oktano (Esperanto), oktaani (Finnish), octane [masculine] (French), Octan [neuter] (German), οκτάνιο (oktánio) [neuter] (Greek), oktan [neuter] (Icelandic), oktano (Ido), oktana (Indonesian), ottano [masculine] (Italian), オクタン (okutan) (Japanese), អុកតាន (ʼoktaan) (Khmer), 옥테인 (oktein) (Korean), oktan [neuter] (Norwegian), اکتان (oktân) (Persian), oktan [masculine] (Polish), octano [masculine] (Portuguese), окта́н (oktán) [masculine] (Russian), о̀кта̄н [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), òktān [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), octano [masculine] (Spanish), oktan [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-octane-en-noun-jLkcn6nv Disambiguation of Petroleum: 58 42 Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons': 76 24
  2. octane number
    Sense id: en-octane-en-noun-YBRGDoup Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with octo-, English terms suffixed with -ane Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with octo-: 25 75 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ane: 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: octene, octyne Coordinate_terms: octyl

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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oktán",
      "sense": "isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "окта́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "о̀кта̄н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "òktān"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "octano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "oktan"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "octane"
  ],
  "word": "octane"
}

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