asbestic
asbestic adjective: relating to, or resembling, asbestos.
Adjective
asbestic (comparative more asbestic, superlative most asbestic)
- Relating to, or resembling, asbestos.
Noun
asbestic (uncountable)
- A type of wall plaster that is a byproduct of the manufacture of asbestos from serpentine.
- After the lime and asbestic are thoroughly mixed, the plaster should be allowed to stand at least twenty-four hours before being used.1897, The Builder - Volume 73, page 393
- They heard of the crushers into which the stone was passed at one end , and of the table at the other end with the cyclones, where the material, which was not asbestic, was rejected, and the asbestic was drawn away as fibre, but they had not heard much of what went on in between, except that there...1897 April 30, Robert H. Jones, “Asbestos and Asbestic: With Some Account of the Recent Discovery of the Latter at Danville, in Lower Canada”, in Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 45, number...
Forms of asbestic
| comparative | more asbestic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most asbestic |
Origin of asbestic
From asbestos + -ic.
Questions about asbestic
- What does asbestic mean?
- Asbestic means relating to, or resembling, asbestos.
- What part of speech is asbestic?
- Asbestic can be an adjective or a noun.
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