Plexiglas

See also: plexiglas and plexiglás

Translingual

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Plexiglas

A brand of tough, transparent plastic (polymethyl methacrylate) which can be used as a replacement for glass in windows, aircraft cockpit domes and windshields, and the like.

brand of tough, transparent plastic

Chinese:
Mandarin: 有機玻璃／有机玻璃 (zh) (yǒujī bōli)
Czech: plexisklo n
Finnish: pleksilasi
French: plexiglas (fr) m
German: Acrylglas (de) n, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Japanese: プレキシガラス (purekishigarasu)
Russian: плексигла́с (ru) m (pleksiglás), оргстекло́ (ru) n (orgstekló), органи́ческое стекло́ n (organíčeskoje stekló)
Spanish: plexiglás m
Ukrainian: оргскло́ n (orhskló), органі́чне скло n (orhaníčne sklo)

Coined by Otto Röhm in 1933, from Latin plexus (“interwoven”) +‎ Glas (“glass”), alluding to polymerization.

Plexiglas n (strong, genitive Plexiglases or Plexiglass, plural Plexigläser)

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