Polyamide
A polymer family whose repeat units are linked by amide bonds, covering polyamide fibres such as nylon and aramid and polyamide moulding and engineering plastics.
How it connects
Polyamide is a kind of Polymer.
Polyamide includes Aramid and Nylon.
Other kinds of Polymer: Acrylic, EVA, Man-made cellulosic, Plastic, Polyester, Polyolefin, Polyurethane, PTFE, Resin, Rubber and Silicone.
In other taxonomies
- polyamide or nylonEU 1007/2011, polyamide or nylontheirs is narrower
- polyamideISO 1043-1, PAthe same thing
- polyamideISO 2076, polyamidetheirs is narrower
- Polyamide (PA)Uniclass, Ma_60_65_03theirs is narrower
- polyamideWikidata, Q145273nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
- Seen in the wild
- Polyamid · Poliammide
- Broader
- Polymer
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); ISO 1043-1:2011+Amd 1:2016; ISO 2076:2021, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/polyamideKnowledge 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
- broaderAramidincoming
- broaderNylonincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderPolymeroutgoing
- narrowerAramidoutgoing
- narrowerNylonoutgoing
- narrowerPolymerincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Polymeroutgoing
- descendant (derived)Aramidoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Nylonoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Nylon 6outgoing
- descendant (derived)Nylon 6,6outgoing
- sibling (derived)Acrylicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)EVAoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Man-made cellulosicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plasticoutgoing
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EU 1007/2011 | polyamide or nylon | polyamide or nylon | theirs is narrower |
| ISO 1043-1 | PA | polyamide | the same thing |
| ISO 2076 | polyamide | polyamide | theirs is narrower |
| Uniclass | Ma_60_65_03 | Polyamide (PA) | theirs is narrower |
| Wikidata | Q145273 | polyamide | nearly the same |