polyamide

From poly- +‎ amide.

polyamide (plural polyamides)

2. (organic chemistry) Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.
   • 2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 April 2022:

     For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process.

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polyamide f (plural polyamides)

1. polyamide

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