The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acrylic resin \A*cryl"ic re"sin\, n. 1. (Chem.) a thermoplastic made by polymerization of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid or some derivative of these (such as the esters or amides). It can be formed into a clear hard plastic, and is the basis for the commercial plastics called Lucite and Plexiglass.
Wiktionary
n. (context organic chemistry English) Any of many thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers or copolymers of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, esters of these acids, or acrylonitrile; used in paint and many plastics.
WordNet
n. a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives [syn: acrylic, acrylate resin]
Wikipedia
Acrylic resins are a group of related thermoplastic or thermosetting plastic substances derived from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or other related compounds. Polymethyl acrylate is an acrylic resin used in an emulsified form for lacquer, textile finishes, adhesives and, when mixed with clay, to gloss paper. Another acrylic resin is polymethyl methacrylate, which is used to make hard plastics with various light transmitting properties.
Usage examples of "acrylic resin".
He moved it, so that the acrylic resin slipped across the Messulethe's nostrils and mouth, covered his eyes.
Better yet, you hide above Nighttown, because the Pit's inverted, and the bottom of its bowl touches the sky, the sky that Nighttown never sees, sweating under its own filament of acrylic resin, up where the Lo Teks crouch in the dark like gargoyles, black-market cigarettes dangling from their lips.
In time, he was encased like a scorpion inside a cheap gift shop acrylic resin paperweight.
He'd all but promised the fleetlord that he'd bring back Skorzeny's head in a clear block of acrylic resin.
Someone had encased every sprinkler head the shop inside lumps of a thick, quick setting, clear acrylic resin, clogging the heads so effectively that water could not flow out.