haloid

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English

Etymology

From halo- +‎ -oid.

Adjective

haloid (not comparable)

  1. (chemistry) Resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides.

Noun

haloid (plural haloids)

  1. (chemistry) Any haloid substance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haloid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French haloïde.

Adjective

haloid m or n (feminine singular haloidă, masculine plural haloizi, feminine and neuter plural haloide)

  1. haloid

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite haloid haloidă haloizi haloide
definite haloidul haloida haloizii haloidele
genitive-
dative
indefinite haloid haloide haloizi haloide
definite haloidului haloidei haloizilor haloidelor