methyl ethyl ketone

noun

colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid

• Syn: ↑butanone

• Hypernyms: ↑ketone

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noun

: a flammable liquid compound CH₃COC₂H₅ resembling acetone made usually by dehydrogenation of secondary butyl alcohol and used chiefly as a solvent — called also 2-butanone

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Chem.

a colorless, flammable liquid, C₄H₈O, produced by synthesis or fermentation: used chiefly as a solvent, as a paint remover, and in the manufacture of plastics. Abbr.: MEK Also called butanone.

[1875-80]