Usually means: Hydrocarbon group, missing one hydrogen.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. alkyl: Merriam-Webster
  2. alkyl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alkyl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alkyl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alkyl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alkyl, alkyl: Wordnik
  7. alkyl: Wiktionary
  8. alkyl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alkyl: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. alkyl: Dictionary.com
  11. Alkyl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. alkyl: Rhymezone
  13. alkyl: FreeDictionary.org
  14. alkyl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. alkyl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. alkyl: Merriam-Webster

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  1. alkyl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. alkyl: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. alkyl: Medical dictionary

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  1. Alkyl: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

(Note: See alkyls as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alkyl)

noun:  (organic chemistry) Any of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₁ derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons. In other words, an alkane minus one hydrogen atom.

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