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Acetate
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- 1 Any ester or salt of acetic acid.
"[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]"
- 2 a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a salt or ester of acetic acid wordnet
- 5 A transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.
"Near-synonym: gel"
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- 6 In full acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.
"Acetates are a relic of the days before cassettes, DAT, and recordable CDs came into widespread use in recording studios. Manufactured from aluminum, and coated in a thin sheet of vinyl, they were produced to allow the concerned parties to hear how a particular version of a recording would sound outside the studio, on their home hi-fi, for example."
Etymology
Formed from the root of Latin acētum (“vinegar”) + -ate, from aceō (“I am sour”). By surface analysis, acet- + -ate.
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