1. 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, methyl ethyl ketone]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
butanone
n 1: 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, methyl ethyl ketone]