lucite
pronunciation
How to pronounce lucite in British English:
UK [ˈlu:sait]
How to pronounce lucite in American English:
US [ˈluˌsaɪt]
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- Noun:
- a transparent thermoplastic acrylic resin
Word Origin
- Lucite
- 1937, proprietary name (E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.) for a solid, transparent plastic, from Latin luc(i)-, from stem of lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)).
Example
- 1. Lucite is totally rock star !
- 2. There are 19th-century letter cases and quite a few 1950s lucite handbags .
- 3. Acrylic compounds are used to make molded structural and optical parts , jewelry , adhesives , coating compounds , and textile fibres . Lucite and plexiglas are trademarks used for glasslike acrylic materials .
- 4. Mitsubishi and lucite each have small operations in china and , under the new rules , met the threshold to require a local merger filing .
- 5. Mitsubishi and lucite each have small operations in china and , under the rules , met the threshold to require a local merger filing .