acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene

noun

: abs entry 1

The company began churning out brightly colored "automatic binding bricks," later made from sturdier acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plastic, which is used to this day.—

David Kushner

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The fiddly little parts that the company churns out—many billions every year—are today mostly made from acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, or ABS. —

WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023

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1957, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene was in 1957

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