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di⋅chlo⋅ro⋅phe⋅nox⋅y⋅a⋅ce⋅tic ac⋅id

[dahy-klawr-oh-fi-nok-see-uh-see-tik, -uh-set-ik, dahy-klohr-, dahy-klawr-oh-fi-nok- dahy-klohr-]
–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

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).
[The Jargon File]
(1995-01-25)

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