octane

See also: Octane

English

Etymology

octo- +‎ -ane

Pronunciation

enPR: ŏk'tān, IPA^(key): /ˈɒk.teɪn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

octane (plural octanes)

(organic chemistry) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C₈H₁₈) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.
octane number

Coordinate terms

octyl

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons

Arabic: أُوكْتَان (ʔuktān)
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Bulgarian: октан m (oktan)
Burmese: အောက်တိန်း (auktin:)
Catalan: octà m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 辛烷 (zh) (xīnwàn)
Czech: oktan (cs) m
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Dutch: octaan (nl)
Esperanto: oktano
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Finnish: oktaani (fi)
French: octane (fr) m
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German: Octan (de) n
Greek: οκτάνιο (el) n (oktánio)
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Icelandic: oktan n
Ido: oktano (io)
Indonesian: oktana (id)
Italian: ottano (it) m
Japanese: オクタン (okutan)
Khmer: អុកតាន (ʼoktaan)
Korean: 옥테인 (oktein)
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Norwegian: oktan n
Persian: اکتان (fa) (oktân)
Polish: oktan (pl) m
Portuguese: octano (pt) m
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Russian: окта́н (ru) m (oktán)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̀кта̄н m

Roman: òktān (sh) m
Spanish: octano m
Swedish: oktan (sv) n
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Anagrams

Acteon, at once, encoat

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

octane m (plural octanes)

octane

Further reading

“octane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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