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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aliphatic \Al`i*phat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, oil, fat.] (Org. Chem.) Of pertaining to or derived from fat; fatty; -- applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: aliphatic adj : having carbon atoms linked in open chains
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