"polysorbate" meaning in English

See polysorbate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: polysorbates [plural]
Etymology: poly- + sorbate Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|poly|sorbate}} poly- + sorbate Head templates: {{en-noun}} polysorbate (plural polysorbates)
  1. (chemistry) Any of a class of emulsifiers used as food additives and in pharmaceutical preparations; they are derived from sorbitan (typically with three polyoxyethylene side-chains) esterified with a fatty acid; they are mostly oily liquids, or soft solids. Wikipedia link: polysorbate Categories (topical): Chemistry Synonyms: E432 - polysorbate 20, E433 - polysorbate 80, E434 - polysorbate 40, E435 - polysorbate 60, E436 - polysorbate 65, Tween™ nn

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for polysorbate meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "poly",
        "3": "sorbate"
      },
      "expansion": "poly- + sorbate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "poly- + sorbate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "polysorbates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "polysorbate (plural polysorbates)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with poly-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Chemistry",
          "orig": "en:Chemistry",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a class of emulsifiers used as food additives and in pharmaceutical preparations; they are derived from sorbitan (typically with three polyoxyethylene side-chains) esterified with a fatty acid; they are mostly oily liquids, or soft solids."
      ],
      "id": "en-polysorbate-en-noun-cvtlWHmQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "chemistry",
          "chemistry"
        ],
        [
          "emulsifier",
          "emulsifier"
        ],
        [
          "food additive",
          "food additive"
        ],
        [
          "pharmaceutical",
          "pharmaceutical"
        ],
        [
          "sorbitan",
          "sorbitan"
        ],
        [
          "polyoxyethylene",
          "polyoxyethylene"
        ],
        [
          "esterified",
          "esterified"
        ],
        [
          "fatty acid",
          "fatty acid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chemistry) Any of a class of emulsifiers used as food additives and in pharmaceutical preparations; they are derived from sorbitan (typically with three polyoxyethylene side-chains) esterified with a fatty acid; they are mostly oily liquids, or soft solids."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "E432 - polysorbate 20"
        },
        {
          "word": "E433 - polysorbate 80"
        },
        {
          "word": "E434 - polysorbate 40"
        },
        {
          "word": "E435 - polysorbate 60"
        },
        {
          "word": "E436 - polysorbate 65"
        },
        {
          "word": "Tween™ nn"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "polysorbate"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "polysorbate"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "poly",
        "3": "sorbate"
      },
      "expansion": "poly- + sorbate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "poly- + sorbate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "polysorbates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "polysorbate (plural polysorbates)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with poly-",
        "en:Chemistry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a class of emulsifiers used as food additives and in pharmaceutical preparations; they are derived from sorbitan (typically with three polyoxyethylene side-chains) esterified with a fatty acid; they are mostly oily liquids, or soft solids."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chemistry",
          "chemistry"
        ],
        [
          "emulsifier",
          "emulsifier"
        ],
        [
          "food additive",
          "food additive"
        ],
        [
          "pharmaceutical",
          "pharmaceutical"
        ],
        [
          "sorbitan",
          "sorbitan"
        ],
        [
          "polyoxyethylene",
          "polyoxyethylene"
        ],
        [
          "esterified",
          "esterified"
        ],
        [
          "fatty acid",
          "fatty acid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chemistry) Any of a class of emulsifiers used as food additives and in pharmaceutical preparations; they are derived from sorbitan (typically with three polyoxyethylene side-chains) esterified with a fatty acid; they are mostly oily liquids, or soft solids."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "polysorbate"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "E432 - polysorbate 20"
    },
    {
      "word": "E433 - polysorbate 80"
    },
    {
      "word": "E434 - polysorbate 40"
    },
    {
      "word": "E435 - polysorbate 60"
    },
    {
      "word": "E436 - polysorbate 65"
    },
    {
      "word": "Tween™ nn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "polysorbate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.