Acetate: Definition and part of speech

Acetate

  1. n. A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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