octane

See also: Octane

English

Etymology

From oct- +‎ -ane.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ŏk'tān, IPA^(key): /ˈɒk.teɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

octane (plural octanes)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C₈H₁₈) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.
2. octane number

Coordinate terms

• octyl

Derived terms

• diazabicyclooctane
• high-octane
• isooctane
• low-octane
• n-octane
• octanal
• octanedione
• octane number
• octane rating
• octanol
• octanyl
• research octane number

 

Related terms

• octene
• octyne

Translations

isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons

• Arabic: أُوكْتَان (ʔuktān)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: октан m (oktan)
• Burmese: အောက်တိန်း (auktin:)
• Catalan: octà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 辛烷 (zh) (xīnwàn)

• Czech: oktan (cs) m
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• Dutch: octaan (nl)
• Esperanto: oktano
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: oktaani (fi)
• French: octane (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Octan (de) n
• Greek: οκτάνιο (el) n (oktánio)
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• Icelandic: oktan n
• Ido: oktano (io)
• Indonesian: oktana (id)
• Italian: ottano (it) m
• Japanese: オクタン (okutan)
• Khmer: អុកតាន (ʼoktaan)
• Korean: 옥테인 (oktein)
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• Norwegian: oktan n
• Persian: اکتان (fa) (oktân)
• Polish: oktan (pl) m
• Portuguese: octano (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: окта́н (ru) m (oktán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀кта̄н m

  Roman: òktān (sh) m

• Spanish: octano m
• Swedish: oktan (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
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• Vietnamese: octan

Anagrams

• Acteon, at once, encoat

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

octane m (plural octanes)

1. octane

Further reading

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