CARBONS Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

carbons

noun

plural of carbon

as in pictures

something or someone that strongly resembles another this new digital camera is a carbon of a well-known model costing almost twice as much

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as in copies

something that is made to look exactly like something else the bell tower is a carbon of an earlier one that toppled in an earthquake

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Recent Examples of carbons The company will produce conductive carbons and carbon nanostructures designed to improve the performance of next-generation batteries at facilities in Louisiana and Texas. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026 While the backbone is always the same, the number of carbons in the fatty acids can vary. — Rosemary Trout, The Conversation, 10 June 2026 The lipids used to make fats and the cell membrane are built up two carbons at a time. — ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Al Hassan remembers showing a group of visitors TAMM’s feature for taking pictures and reporting potholes.

— Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
The men appear to have developed a close relationship and often share pictures together on their socials, including posing together at the 2021 Los Angeles premiere of the Peter Jackson’s Beatles miniseries Get Back (see above).

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

Researchers at the company tested how AI models might act as computer worms, programs that move between devices and leave copies of themselves behind, among everyday household gadgets.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
An army of Janeites, no doubt wielding their worn copies of Sense and Sensibility, are marching into cinemas around the world to watch an adaptation for a whole new generation.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of copies

Noun

Stand runs computational fluid dynamics, physics models built on top of digital twins.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Aiming to protect what’s left of its buildings and monuments is a converted Volkswagen Crafter—the ARK III, a mobile 3D-scanning lab that creates digital twins of sacred and historical structures for future restoration.

— Chris Stokel-Walker, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of twins

Noun

On the editorial side, this includes the licenses for reproductions in books like exhibition catalogs, scholarly tomes, and even the covers of novels, as well as publications, for news coverage and criticism for exhibitions as well as general use.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
But De Kooning would apply fragments of the reproductions to new compositions, often in different orientations.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of reproductions

Noun

His proficiency, buoyed by his expensive taste and skill in daisy-chaining images together, got his foot in the door of the indie-rap revitalization.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Two more search warrants were carried out for the TikTok account, and during an interview, deputies said the teen confessed to taking photos of a younger child and using AI to alter the images to make the child appear nude.

— Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

Fitting that there are dinosaur replicas towering over the lobby that leads straight through the building.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2026
My main issue with these beloved and mostly innocuous $16 drinking glasses is less about their design and more about their never-ending trail of replicas.

— Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of replicas

Noun

Last winter, an Appalachian folk musician named Murphy Campbell discovered that her videos on YouTube had been used to create AI clones of her voice and banjo playing.

— David Alm, Longreads, 1 Oct. 2026
One of the clones, Antonia, has done what her counterpart has failed to do — produce a surviving lineage of ferrets.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of clones

Noun

Another 258 entries were duplicates, with the same unauthorized videos reported multiple times.

— Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026
Finally, under Performance, the photo cleaner offered to free up storage space by deleting duplicate photos and photos that, while not exact duplicates, are very similar.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

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“Carbons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbons. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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