1. Noun
A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.
2. Noun
Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.
3. Noun
any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule
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