acetate

See also: Acetate, acétate, and aĉetate

English

Etymology

Formed from the root of Latin acētum (“vinegar”) +‎ -ate, from aceō (“I am sour”). By surface analysis, acet- +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæsɪteɪ̯t/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

acetate (plural acetates)

2. (organic chemistry) Any ester or salt of acetic acid.

   Synonym: ethanoate

   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia:

     […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]

3. Cellulose acetate.
   • 2007 July 16, Leslie Feinberg, “How La Güinera made room for more gender”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     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 transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.

   Near-synonym: gel

   Coordinate terms: celluloid, cellophane

5. In full acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.

   Coordinate term: dubplate

   • 2002, Dave Thompson, The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting, Hal Leonard Corporation (→ISBN), Acetates—The Rock Star's Rough Draft:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• acetic acid (coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution)

Derived terms

• aceclidine
• acedapsone
• acetated
• acetatelyase
• acetatic
• acetoacetate
• acetorphine
• ammonium acetate
• amphoacetate
• amyl acetate
• bisacodyl
• bromoacetate
• butylacetate
• calcium acetate
• cefacetrile
• cellulose acetate
• chloroacetate
• citronellyl acetate
• copper acetate
• cupric acetate
• cyanoacetate
• cyproterone acetate
• denaverine
• diacetate
• ethyl acetate
• ethylenediaminetetraacetate
• ethylene-vinyl acetate
• eugenol acetate
• eugenyl acetate
• fentin acetate
• fluoroacetate
• hydrogen acetate
• iodoacetate
• lead acetate
• linalyl acetate
• lithium acetate
• medroxyprogesterone acetate
• methyl acetate
• methylazoxymethanol acetate
• monoacetate
• nonacetate
• octaacetate
• orthoacetate
• oxaloacetate
• oxoacetate
• parachlorophenoxyacetate
• pentaacetate
• peracetate
• polyvinyl acetate
• potassium acetate
• sodium acetate
• sodium acetate trihydrate
• subacetate
• tetraacetate
• thioacetate
• triacetate
• undecaacetate
• vaccenyl acetate
• vinyl acetate

Translations

salt or ester of acetic acid

• Bulgarian: ацетат m (acetat)
• Catalan: acetat m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醋酸鹽 / 醋酸盐 (cou³ syun¹ jim⁴), 乙酸鹽 / 乙酸盐 (jyut³ syun¹ jim⁴)

  Mandarin: 醋酸鹽 / 醋酸盐 (zh) (cùsuānyán), 乙酸鹽 / 乙酸盐 (zh) (yǐsuānyán)

• Czech: acetát m
• Dutch: acetaat (nl) n
• Finnish: asetaatti (fi)
• French: acétate (fr) m
• German: Azetat (de) n, Acetat (de) n
• Hindi: शुक्त (hi) ? (śukt)
• Hungarian: acetát (hu)
• Indonesian: asetat (id)
• Irish: aicéatáit f
• Italian: acetato (it) m
• Japanese: アセテート (ja) (asetēto), 酢酸塩 (さくさんえん, sakusan'en)
• Malay: asetat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: acetat (no) n

• Polish: octan (pl) n, acetat (pl) m
• Portuguese: acetato (pt) m
• Romanian: acetat (ro) m
• Russian: ацета́т (ru) m (acetát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ацѐта̄т m

  Roman: acètāt m

• Spanish: acetato (es) m
• Swedish: acetat (sv) n

cellulose acetate — see cellulose acetate

transparent overlay sheet

• Catalan: transparència (ca) f
• Finnish: kalvo (fi)
• Irish: tréshoilseán m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

aluminium disc covered in wax

• Finnish: pikalevy, lakkalevy
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• acetate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• acetate disc on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Verb

acetate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of acetar combined with te