Resin
A solid, semi-solid or pseudo-solid organic polymer material, often of high molecular weight, used as a binder, coating or cast or moulded solid rather than as a fibre or bulk engineering plastic.
Also called Synthetic resin.
How it connects
Resin is a kind of Polymer.
Resin includes Epoxy, Melamine and Phenolic resin.
Other kinds of Polymer: Acrylic, EVA, Man-made cellulosic, Plastic, Polyamide, Polyester, Polyolefin, Polyurethane, PTFE, Rubber and Silicone.
In other taxonomies
- Synthetic resinUniclass, Ma_60_72_86nearly the same
- synthetic resinWikidata, Q1418040nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
- Also called
- Synthetic resin
- Broader
- Polymer
- Narrower
- Epoxy · Melamine · Phenolic resin
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); ISO 472:2013, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/resinKnowledge 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
- broaderEpoxyincoming
- broaderMelamineincoming
- broaderPhenolic resinincoming
- narrowerPolymerincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderPolymeroutgoing
- narrowerEpoxyoutgoing
- narrowerMelamineoutgoing
- narrowerPhenolic resinoutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Polymeroutgoing
- descendant (derived)Epoxyoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Melamineoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Phenolic resinoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Acrylicoutgoing
- 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)Rubberoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Siliconeoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_60_72_86 | Synthetic resin | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q1418040 | synthetic resin | nearly the same |