Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun butanone

1 sense of butanone

Sense 1
butanone, methyl ethyl ketone -- (colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid)
       => ketone -- (any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals)