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Lucite|ˈl(j)uːsaɪt|
Also lucite.
[f. L. luc(i)-, lux light + -ite1.]
A proprietary name for a solid, transparent plastic that is a methyl methacrylate resin; perspex.
1937Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 6 July 9/1 E. I DuPont de Nemours and Company. Lucite. For thermo⁓plastic synthetic resin material, known as methyl methacrylate, in the form of sheets, rods, and tubes, and in powdered or granular form. 1939Reader's Digest Feb. 81/1 Light flows through rods made of Lucite, a du Pont plastic, as water flows through a pipe. 1953J. Y. Cousteau Silent World 89 Through the lucite windows [of the Bathyscaphe] the pilots could look into a landscape lighted by exterior floodlamps. 1973R. Hayes Hungarian Game xv. 98 The system had two Lucite indicators, one red the other green. |