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-mer

Chemistry.
a combining form meaning “member of a particular group”: isomer.
Compare -mere, -merous.


Origin:
< Greek méros part, portion
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-mer is always a great word to know.
So is scrub. Does it mean:
to remove impurities from a gas by chemical means, as sulfur dioxide from smokestack gas or carbon dioxide from exhaled air in life-support packs
a purplish-red, water-soluble powder, C20H11N2O10Na3, an azo dye used chiefly to color pharmaceuticals, food, and garments
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World English Dictionary
-mer
 
suffix forming nouns
chem denoting a substance of a particular class: monomer; polymer
 
[from Greek meros part]

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Medical Dictionary

-mer suff.
Variant of -mere.

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Science Dictionary
-mere or -mer  
A suffix meaning "part" or "segment," as in blastomere, one of the cells that form a blastula.
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