Word.ws English Dictionary

chloroacetate

chloroacetate noun: any salt or ester of chloroacetic acid.

Noun

chloroacetate (plural chloroacetates)

  1. Any salt or ester of chloroacetic acid

Forms of chloroacetate

pluralchloroacetates

Origin of chloroacetate

From chloro- + acetate.

Questions about chloroacetate

What does chloroacetate mean?
Chloroacetate means any salt or ester of chloroacetic acid.
What part of speech is chloroacetate?
Chloroacetate is a noun.
What is the plural of chloroacetate?
The plural of chloroacetate is chloroacetates.

Words near chloroacetate in the dictionary

  1. chloroacetaldehyde
  2. chloroacetamide
  3. chloroacetamides
  4. chloroacetanilide
  5. chloroacetanilides
  6. chloroacetate
  7. chloroacetates
  8. chloroacetic
  9. chloroacetic acid
  10. chloroacetone
  11. chloroacetonitrile

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chloroacetate (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: “chloroacetate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chloroacetate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.