haloid
[ hal-oid, hey-loid ]
/ ˈhæl ɔɪd, ˈheɪ lɔɪd /
adjective
Also hal·o·gen·oid
[hal-uh-juh-noid, hey-luh-] /ˈhæl ə dʒəˌnɔɪd, ˈheɪ lə-/.
resembling or derived from a halogen.
noun
a haloid salt or derivative from a halogen.
Words nearby haloid
halocarbon,
halocline,
halogen,
halogen lamp,
halogenate,
haloid,
halolike,
halometer,
halon,
haloperidol,
halophil
Example sentences from the Web for haloid
By 1961, when the company changed its name from Haloid to Xerox, 10,000 had been installed.
Haloid spent nearly 15 years and $75 million developing prototype copiers, even building a factory in 1954 far ahead of demand.
The haloid salts are easily volatilized, without decomposition.
We have, in fact, but the one resource—the allotropic modification of the haloid—whereby to explain all these orders of stability.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays |J. (John) Joly
British Dictionary definitions for haloid
haloid
/ (ˈhælɔɪd) chem /
adjective
resembling or derived from a halogen
a haloid salt
noun
a compound containing halogen atoms in its molecules; halide