Word.ws English Dictionary

acetates

acetates is the plural of acetate.

Meaning of acetate

Noun

acetate (plural acetates)

  1. Any ester or salt of acetic acid.
    • […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
    Synonyms:
    ethanoate
  2. Cellulose acetate.
    • Performers use acetate because eyelash glue is not available. They create eyelashes out of horse hair or cut from carbon paper. Their nails are glued on with a shoe adhesive.2007 July 16, Leslie Feinberg, “How La Güinera made room for more gender”, in Workers World
  3. A transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.
    • Near-synonym: gel
    Synonyms:
    gel

Phrases with acetates

Questions about acetates

What is acetates the plural of?
Acetates is the plural of acetate.

Words near acetates in the dictionary

  1. acetary
  2. acetate
  3. acetated
  4. acetatelyase
  5. acetatelyases
  6. acetates
  7. acetatic
  8. acetation
  9. acetations
  10. acetator
  11. acetators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: acetates (page history and authors); acetate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “acetates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/acetates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.