Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. Any of a class of polyether resins; used for coatings, adhesives and foam
WordNet
n. a thermosetting resin; used chiefly in strong adhesives and coatings and laminates [syn: epoxy, epoxy glue]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "epoxy resin".
The stronger the material the less it needs to be tapered, but if we consider carbon-fiber epoxy resin composites, the strongest material we can currently build things with, the appropriate taper (about two and a half thousandths of a degree) for a cable just a millimeter in diameter at the ground produces a cable two kilometers in diameter at geosynchronous Earth orbit and massing sixty trillion metric tons.
We filled the truck to its limit with hundred-pound sacks of dry cement and gravel and we also got ourselves some really vicious epoxy resin glue.
He was stirring a can of epoxy resin on his workbench, its strong odor filling the garage.
The bar was a pine semicircle coated with an inch of epoxy resin and padded with sausage-coloured vinyl.
As if that instinctive, helpless human gesture would alleviate two thousand degrees of hell should the epoxy resin of the shield fail anywhere!
Then he peeled back the small flaps and inserted a round object no more than half an inch in diameter and, using an odourless epoxy resin, he closed the flaps carefully.
The foredeck was made of a thin sheet of West System epoxy resin, painted glistening white with gold piping like the rest of the boat.