Acrylic
A family of polymers and fibres built predominantly from acrylonitrile, acrylate or methacrylate monomers, covering acrylic and modacrylic fibre, PMMA sheet and acrylic resins.
How it connects
Acrylic is a kind of Polymer.
Acrylic includes Acrylic fibre, Modacrylic and PMMA.
Other kinds of Polymer: EVA, Man-made cellulosic, Plastic, Polyamide, Polyester, Polyolefin, Polyurethane, PTFE, Resin, Rubber and Silicone.
In other taxonomies
- acrylic (resin)Getty AAT, 300014426theirs is narrower
- acrylic (fiber)Getty AAT, 300386559theirs is narrower
- poly(methyl methacrylate)Wikidata, Q146123theirs is narrower
- acrylic fiberWikidata, Q2259977theirs is narrower
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
Widened on 2026-09-22 from PMMA sheet alone to the acrylic polymer family; the sheet is now material/pmma beneath it.
- Broader
- Polymer
- Narrower
- Acrylic fibre · Modacrylic · PMMA
- Provenance
- referencedthe family grouping written here from Encyclopaedia Britannica, acrylic, https://www.britannica.com/science/acrylic; ISO 2076:2021 and US FTC 16 CFR 303.7 (acrylic and modacrylic fibre), read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/acrylicKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderPolymeroutgoing
- narrowerAcrylic fibreoutgoing
- narrowerModacrylicoutgoing
- narrowerPMMAoutgoing
- broaderAcrylic fibreincoming
- broaderModacrylicincoming
- broaderPMMAincoming
- narrowerPolymerincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Polymeroutgoing
- descendant (derived)Acrylic fibreoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Modacrylicoutgoing
- descendant (derived)PMMAoutgoing
- sibling (derived)EVAoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Man-made cellulosicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plasticoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Polyamideoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Polyesteroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Polyolefinoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Polyurethaneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)PTFEoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Resinoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Rubberoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Siliconeoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300014426 | acrylic (resin) | theirs is narrower |
| Getty AAT | 300386559 | acrylic (fiber) | theirs is narrower |
| Wikidata | Q146123 | poly(methyl methacrylate) | theirs is narrower |
| Wikidata | Q2259977 | acrylic fiber | theirs is narrower |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026acrylic via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search?query=acrylic&filter=status%3ACurrent | none |