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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A class-name applied in organic chemistry to compounds of the univalent radical methyl, -CH3. It is chiefly used in the case of metallic derivatives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A binary compound of methyl with some element.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry Any binary compound of the methyl radical and an electropositive element, especially a metal

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