silicone

Meanings

Noun

• Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.

Verb

• To join or treat (something) with a silicone-based product.
• To enhance or reconstruct (a body part) with a prosthesis containing silicone.

Origin

• silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.