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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  oligomer \o*lig"o*mer\, n. (Chem.)
     A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer
     units; a short polymer; -- compounds called oligomers have
     less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than
     thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called {dimer},
     {trimer}, {tetramer}, {pentamer}, {hexamer}, {heptamer},


     {octamer}, {nonamer}, {decamer}, etc. In colloquial
     laboratory jargon, they may also be referred to as
     {nine-mer}, {ten-mer}, {eleven-mer}, {twelve-mer}, etc.,
     especially for oligomers of greater than eight units.
     [PJC]

















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