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di·chlo·ro·phe·nox·y·a·ce·tic ac·id

Audio Help [dahy-klawr-oh-fi-nok-see-uh-see-tik, -uh-set-ik, dahy-klohr-, dahy-klawr-oh-fi-nok- dahy-klohr-] Pronunciation Key

–noun Chemistry.

a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C₈H₆O₃Cl₂, slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.

Also called 2, 4-D.

[Origin: di-¹ + chloro-² + phen- + oxy-² + acetic acid

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adjective
1.	being one more than one; "he received two messages" [syn: two]
noun
1.	the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number [syn: two]

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2 convention, character
In names of translation software, infix 2 often represents the word "to" with the connotation "translate to", as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string (integer to string) and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff).
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