acetate
Any ester or salt of acetic acid.
Other meanings
Cellulose acetate.
A transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.
A kind of
- salt
Kinds of acetate
- lead acetate
Related words
- aceclidine
- acedapsone
- acetated
- acetatelyase
- acetatic
- acetoacetate
- acetorphine
- ammonium acetate
- amphoacetate
- amyl acetate
- bisacodyl
- bromoacetate
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This definition is adapted from “acetate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.