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molar

4.2

Relating to the large back teeth used for grinding food

adjective
/ˈmoʊlər/

: molar

During my last check-up, the dentist showed me how to properly clean my molar teeth to avoid cavities.

Examples

Where the bracketed values X represent the equilibrium activity of the species X that we approximate here as its molar concentration.

Academic text (2001)
But fifteen years ago, my jaw was starting to hurt, something like a molar toothache, an augmenting pain with no end in sight.

Fiction book (1994)
And now I've bitten it and it's like all in my molar crevices.
The dentist explained that the pain was coming from my molar teeth, which are essential for grinding food.
He had to adjust his bite after losing a molar, as these teeth play a key role in chewing.

Compounds

molar pregnancy

Specialized

1 9.9

Tissue in the womb during early pregnancy that forms a mass of small sacs and causes loss of the baby

molar concentration

Specialized

5.6

Amount of a substance dissolved in one liter of solution measured in moles per liter

second molar

Specialized

3.5

A large tooth at the back of the mouth behind the first back tooth

Surface Forms

molar positive

Etymology

Molar as an adjective for teeth also comes from Latin mola 'mill', because molar teeth have flat tops and act like little mills to grind food. So 'molar' describes the grinding teeth at the back of the mouth.