cocontinuous

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cocontinuous (not comparable)

(mathematics, of a functor) Commutative with small colimits; right-exact and transforming small direct sums into small direct sums.
(organic chemistry) Blending two linear, amorphous polymers such that the phases interpenetrate.
- 1986, Donald R. Paul, Leslie Howard Sperling, Multicomponent polymer materials, page 43:
  Further, this structure is retained even during melt processing without loss of the interpenetrating cocontinuous structure.
- 1987, Herman Francis Mark, Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering:
  An example of cocontinuous phases in three dimensions is an air filter and the air that flows through it.
- 2009, Charef Harrats, Multiphase Polymer- Based Materials, →ISBN:
  Chapter 4 relates photomicrographs of thermoplastics/thermoplastics, thermoplastics/thermosets, and some selected thermoplastic vulcanizates in which the phase morphology is not particularly cocontinuous.