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active ingredients

active ingredients is the plural of active ingredient.

Meaning of active ingredient

Noun

active ingredient (plural active ingredients)

  1. (especially) The specific compound in a natural or man-made mixture that is responsible for the mixture's activity.
  2. (figuratively) The essence of something, or a sine qua non that it requires.
    • I think many humans never learn how to do this, either. They assume that our existence is nothing more than an endless lurching in the direction of the things you want, and never actually getting them. Life is hard and then you die; stick a needle in your eye! There are people with the opposite...2025 December 9, Adam Mastroianni, “The drug that taught me how much I should suffer; or: grindset and bedrot”, in Experimental History (Substack newsletter)

Questions about active ingredients

What is active ingredients the plural of?
Active ingredients is the plural of active ingredient.

Words near active ingredients in the dictionary

  1. active galaxies
  2. active galaxy
  3. active gravitational mass
  4. active gravitational masses
  5. active ingredient
  6. active ingredients
  7. active learning
  8. active lidar
  9. active lidars
  10. active listening
  11. active material

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