Meaning Of The Word Plastic

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What's The Definition Of Plastic?

-plastic in American English
forming, developing
combining form: a combining form used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -plasm

-plastic in British English
combining form in adjective: growing or forming

plastic
Plastic is a material which is produced from oil by a chemical process and which is used to make many objects. It is light in weight and does not break easily.

plastic in American English
molding or shaping matter; formative
noun: any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass

plastic in British English
noun: any one of a large number of synthetic usually organic materials that have a polymeric structure and can be moulded when soft and then set, esp such a material in a finished state containing plasticizer, stabilizer, filler, pigments, etc. Plastics are cla

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