Usually means: Salt or ester of acetic acid.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. acetate: Merriam-Webster
  2. acetate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acetate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acetate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acetate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acetate, acetate: Wordnik
  7. acetate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acetate: Wiktionary
  9. acetate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acetate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acetate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acetate: Dictionary.com
  13. acetate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Acetate (disambiguation), Acetate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Acetate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. acetate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. acetate: Rhymezone
  18. Acetate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. acetate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. acetate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. acetate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. acetate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. acetate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. acetate: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acetate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acetate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. acetate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Acetate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. acetate: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  6. acetate: Medical dictionary
  7. Acetate: Drug Medical Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Textile (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
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(Note: See acetates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (organic chemistry) Any ester or salt of acetic acid.
noun:  Cellulose acetate.
noun:  A transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.
noun:  In full acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.

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