"Acetic" is a word in ENGLISH
Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as
acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour
taste of vinegar is due.
Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing
vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
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The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
Read the complete definitionAn instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.
Read the complete definitionThe act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it.
Read the complete definitionSour like vinegar; acetous.
Read the complete definitionA genus of microorganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. …
Read the complete definitionA sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by …
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