- Perspex
- Perspex 1935, trade name in Britain for what in the U.S. is called Plexiglas or Lucite, irregularly formed from L. perspect-, pp. stem of perspicere “to look through” (see PERSPECTIVE (Cf. perspective)).
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Perspex
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