molecular

English

Etymology

From molecule +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈlɛkjʊlə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈlɛkjələɹ/, /məˈlɛkjuləɹ/

Adjective

molecular (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Relating to, or consisting of, or produced by molecules.
   • 2012 March-April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

2. (chemistry) (of an element) Combined with itself and with no other element; elemental.
3. Relating to a simple or basic structure or organization.
4. (food) Relating to molecular gastronomy.

   molecular dishes

Derived terms

• bimolecular
• biomolecular
• clinicomolecular
• cytomolecular
• dimolecular
• equimolecular
• extramolecular
• gram-molecular weight
• heteromolecular
• histomolecular
• homomolecular
• immunomolecular
• intermolecular
• intramolecular
• macromolecular
• micromolecular
• molecular assembler
• molecular beam epitaxy
• molecular biologist
• molecular biology
• molecular clock
• molecular cloud
• molecular compound
• molecular core
• molecular dipole
• molecular drive
• molecular dynamics
• molecular engineering
• molecular entity
• molecular formula
• molecular genetics
• molecularity
• molecularization
• molecularize
• molecular knife
• molecularly
• molecular mass
• molecular mechanics
• molecular medicine
• molecular modeling
• molecular orbital
• molecular orbital theory
• molecular oxygen
• molecular pathology
• molecular sieve
• molecular volume
• molecular weight
• molecular-weight
• moletronics
• monomolecular
• morphomolecular
• multimolecular
• nanomolecular
• neuromolecular
• nonmolecular
• orthomolecular
• pathomolecular
• polymolecular
• premolecular
• pseudomolecular
• quadrimolecular
• quasimolecular
• seromolecular
• submolecular
• supermolecular
• supramolecular
• termolecular
• tetramolecular
• thermomolecular
• trimolecular
• turbomolecular
• ultramolecular
• unimolecular

Translations

relating to molecules

Arabic: جُزَيْئِيّ (juzayʔiyy) Armenian: մոլեկուլային (hy) (molekulayin) Belarusian: малекуля́рны (maljekuljárny) Bulgarian: молекуля́рен (molekuljáren), молеку́лен (molekúlen) Catalan: molecular (ca) Czech: molekulární (cs) Danish: molekylær (da) Esperanto: molekula Finnish: molekulaarinen (fi) French: moléculaire (fr) Galician: molecular (gl) Georgian: მოლეკულური (moleḳuluri) German: molekular (de) Hungarian: molekuláris (hu) Ido: molekulala (io) Indonesian: molekuler (id) Irish: móilíneach Italian: molecolare (it) Kazakh: молекулалық (molekulalyq) Latvian: molekulārs Malay: molekul (ms) Manx: co-vreneenagh Norman: molétchulaithe Norwegian: Bokmål: molekylær Nynorsk: molekylær Persian: مولکولی (fa) (molekuli) Polish: cząsteczkowy, molekularny (pl) Portuguese: molecular (pt) Romanian: molecular (ro) Russian: молекуля́рный (ru) (molekuljárnyj) Spanish: molecular (es) Swedish: molekylär (sv) Tagalog: mulatlin Turkish: moleküler (tr) Ukrainian: молекуля́рний (molekuljárnyj) Welsh: moleciwlaidd (cy)

Noun

molecular (plural moleculars)

1. (chemistry) Any compound having a specified (range of) molecular weight(s)

Catalan

Etymology

From molècula +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [mu.lə.kuˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [mo.lə.kuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mo.le.kuˈlaɾ]

Adjective

molecular m or f (masculine and feminine plural moleculars)

1. molecular

Further reading

• “molecular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “molecular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “molecular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “molecular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From molécula +‎ -ar.

Adjective

molecular m or f (plural moleculares)

1. molecular

Further reading

• “molecular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Interlingua

Adjective

molecular (not comparable)

1. molecular

Portuguese

Etymology

From molécula +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.le.kuˈlaʁ/ [mo.le.kuˈlah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.le.kuˈlaʁ/ [mo.le.kuˈlah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /mo.le.kuˈlaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /mo.le.kuˈlaʁ/ [mo.le.kuˈlaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.le.kuˈlaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.lɛ.kuˈlaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.lɛ.kuˈlaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.lɛ.kuˈla.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: mo‧le‧cu‧lar

Adjective

molecular m or f (plural moleculares)

1. (chemistry) molecular (relating to molecules)

Further reading

• “molecular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French moléculaire. By surface analysis, moleculă +‎ -ar.

Adjective

molecular m or n (feminine singular moleculară, masculine plural moleculari, feminine and neuter plural moleculare)

1. molecular

Declension

Declension of molecular

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	molecular		moleculară		moleculari	moleculare
	definite	molecularul		moleculara		molecularii	molecularele
genitive- dative	indefinite	molecular		moleculare		moleculari	moleculare
	definite	molecularului		molecularei		molecularilor	molecularelor

Spanish

Etymology

From molécula +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /molekuˈlaɾ/ [mo.le.kuˈlaɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mo‧le‧cu‧lar

Adjective

molecular m or f (masculine and feminine plural moleculares)

1. molecular

Derived terms

• biología molecular
• fórmula molecular (“molecular formula”)
• masa molecular
• molecularmente
• peso molecular
• reloj molecular

Further reading

• “molecular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10