haloid

English

Etymology

halo- +‎ -oid

Adjective

haloid (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides.

Noun

haloid (plural haloids)

1. (chemistry) Any haloid substance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “haloid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Hoidal, dihalo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French haloïde.

Adjective

haloid m or n (feminine singular haloidă, masculine plural haloizi, feminine and neuter plural haloide)

1. haloid

Declension

Declension of haloid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	haloid		haloidă	haloizi	haloide
	definite	haloidul		haloida	haloizii	haloidele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	haloid		haloide	haloizi	haloide
	definite	haloidului		haloidei	haloizilor	haloidelor