NYLON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nylon mean? 

• NYLON (noun)
  The noun NYLON has 2 senses:

1. a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers

2. a synthetic fabric

  Familiarity information: NYLON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NYLON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("nylon" is a kind of...):

man-made fiber; synthetic fiber (fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes)

polyamide; polymeric amide (a polymer containing repeated amide groups)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A synthetic fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("nylon" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

Phenol is used to make plastics, nylon, epoxy, medicines, and to kill germs.

(Phenol, NCI Dictionary)

Detection of RNA that has been electrophoretically separated and immobilized by blotting on nitrocellulose or other type of paper or nylon membrane.

(Northern Blotting, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Carbolic acid is used to make plastics, nylon, epoxy, medicines, and to kill germs.

(Carbolic acid, NCI Dictionary)

The 22-mm scaffolds were shaped over a mold to mimic a hip joint surface and attached to a nylon mesh to maintain their shape.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

RNA extracted from a sample was denatured and separated by slab gel electrophoresis, then blotted on to a nitrocellulose or nylon sheet and hybridized with labeled DNA or RNA that is complementary to the desired RNA, whose presence is subsequently indicated by autoradiography or other visualization techniques.

(Northern Blotting, NCI Thesaurus)