Usually means: Unsaturated hydrocarbons with carbon-carbon double bonds.
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  1. olefin: Merriam-Webster
  2. olefin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. olefin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. olefin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. olefin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Olefin, olefin: Wordnik
  7. olefin: Wiktionary
  8. olefin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. olefin: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. olefin: Dictionary.com
  11. Olefin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. olefin: Rhymezone
  13. olefin: FreeDictionary.org
  14. olefin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. olefin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. olefin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. olefin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. olefin: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Olefin: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms

(Note: See olefinic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (olefin)

noun:  (organic chemistry) Any of a class of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons such as ethylene; an alkene with only one carbon-carbon double bond.

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