detergents
Meaning of detergents
- a water-soluble cleansing agent which combines with impurities and dirt to make them more soluble, and differs from soap in not forming a scum with the salts in hard water.
liquid detergents
packets of detergent
early 17th century (as an adjective): from Latin detergent- ‘wiping away’, from the verb detergere, from de- ‘away from’ + tergere ‘to wipe’.
Information about detergents
- It is a name.
- The singular form of detergents is: detergent.
- Languages in which detergents is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of detergents
de-ter-gents
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- detergents is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
detergents synonyms
Meaning a person employed to clean the interior of a building:
Meaning a substance that cleanses something, especially a cosmetic product for cleansing the skin:
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