Prepenultimate

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of antepenultimate.

    "Inversion at each additional step by the attack of the monomer's electron pair insures that when carbon 3 becomes part of the prepenultimate unit and carbon 1 becomes part of the penultimate unit they will have the same configurations."

Synonyms

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antepenultimate

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"Inversion at each additional step by the attack of the monomer's electron pair insures that when carbon 3 becomes part of the prepenultimate unit and carbon 1 becomes part of the penultimate unit they will have the same configurations."

Etymology

From pre- + penultimate.

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