Definitions for acetate

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acetate ac·e·tate

Spelling: [as-i-teyt]

IPA: /ˈæs ɪˌteɪt/

Acetate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in acetate (aaceett).

Definitions for acetate

noun

1. Chemistry. a salt or ester of acetic acid.
2. Also called acetate rayon. a synthetic filament, yarn, or fabric composed of a derivative of the acetic ester of cellulose, differing from viscose rayon in having greater strength when wet and greater sensitivity to high temperatures.
3. a sheet of clear plastic film fastened over the front of artwork for protection, as an overlay, or the like.
4. a slow-burning base material, cellulose triacetate, used for motion-picture film to minimize fire hazard during projection, and also for animation cells.

Origin of acetate

First recorded in 1820-30; acet- + -ate²

Examples for acetate

The acetate is not crystalline, that of strychnine is so (p. 321).

A record would spend years in larval form as an acetate, the big waxy master from which copies were made.

The mordant for a full red may be acetate of alumina, of spec.

acetate of lead may also be found as a constituent of various eye-waters.

He gave personal testimony as to the taste of acetate of morphia.

But much acid is lost in this case by the formation of acetate of that metal.

The weighting agents most generally used are sugar and acetate of lead.

The cotton is first steeped in a bath of acetate of lead of about 10° Tw.

Verdigris is an acetate of copper, or a mixture of acetates.

acetate of Lead is contained in a pill, a suppository, and an ointment.