chemical compound

English

Noun

chemical compound (plural chemical compounds)

1. (chemistry) Any substance formed by the union of two or more chemical elements in a fixed ratio, the union being a chemical bond.

   Antonym: elementary substance

2. (informal, proscribed) Any single substance, either compound or element

   Synonym: chemical

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:chemical compound

Translations

in chemistry: substance formed by the union of two or more chemical elements

• Finnish: kemiallinen yhdiste (fi)
• French: composé chimique (fr) m, corps composé (fr) m
• Galician: composto químico (gl) m
• Georgian: ქიმიური ნაერთი (kimiuri naerti)
• German: chemische Verbindung (de) f
• Greek: χημική ένωση (el) f (chimikí énosi)
• Indonesian: senyawa kimia
• Italian: composto chimico (it)
• Kyrgyz: химиялык кошунду (himiyalık koşundu)
• Malay: sebatian kimia (ms)
• Polish: związek chemiczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: composto químico (pt) m
• Romanian: compus chimic m
• Russian: хими́ческое соедине́ние (ru) n (ximíčeskoje sojedinénije), сло́жное вещество́ n (slóžnoje veščestvó)
• Serbo-Croatian: kémījskī spȏj m
• Spanish: compuesto químico
• Thai: สมการเคมี (sà-má-gaan-kee-mii)
• Vietnamese: hợp chất (vi)

informally: any single substance, either compound or element

• French: produit chimique (fr) m