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English
Etymology
From the trademark Styrofoam, from -styr- (from polystyrene) + connective -o- + foam.
Noun
styrofoam (countable and uncountable, plural styrofoams)
- Expanded polystyrene foam, such as is used in cups and packaging.
1988 November 4, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:A while ago I read your column concerning the effects of hot tea on styrofoam cups.
2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
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- Arabic: ستايروفوم m (stayrofūm)
- Armenian: փրփրապլաստ (hy) (pʻrpʻraplast)
- Catalan: porexpan m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發泡膠/发泡胶 (zh) (fāpàojiāo), 保麗龍/保丽龙 (zh) (bǎolìlóng)
- Dutch: piepschuim (nl) n
- Finnish: styroksi
- French: polystyrène (fr) m, (Quebec) styromousse (fr) m, polystyrène expansé (fr) m, frigolite (fr) f
- German: Styropor (de) n, Polystyrol n
- Greek: φελιζόλ (el) n (felizól)
- Hungarian: hungarocell (hu)
- Icelandic: frauðplast (is) n
- Italian: polistirolo espanso m, polistirene m
- Japanese: 発泡スチロール (happō-suchirōru)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хөөсөнцөр (mn) (xöösöncör)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠭᠡᠰᠦᠨᠴᠢᠷ (kögesünčir)
- Polish: styropian (pl) m
- Portuguese: (Portugal) esferovite (pt), (Brazil) isopor (pt) m
- Russian: пенопла́ст (ru) m (penoplást), пенополистиро́л (ru) m (penopolistiról)
- Serbo-Croatian: stȉropōr (sh) m
- Slovene: stiropọ̑r m
- Spanish: poliestireno expandido m (formal), poliestireno extruido m (formal), telgopor m (Argentina), unicel (es) m (Mexico), plumavit m (Chile), anime (es) m (Venezuela), extrusionado m, extrudido (es) m, estereofón m (Costa Rica), poliespán m (Spain)
- Swedish: frigolit (sv) c, cellplast (sv) c, skumplast (sv) c
- Yiddish: סטיראָשוים (stiroshoym)
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