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The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1996, Christopher J. Biermann, Handbook of Pulping and Papermaking, Academic Press, 3.8 Kraft Pulping, p. 89, https://books.google.ca/books?id=sfZfyEmqs_AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Causticity is the ratio of NaOH to active alkali (as always both chemicals are on an Na2O basis), expressed as a percentage.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Being caustic in speech, humour etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pungency
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree English caustic Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English causticity From caustic + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
causticidá
— the quality of being caustic
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Catalan:
causticitat
— the quality of being caustic
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French:
causticité
— the quality of being caustic
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Galician:
causticidade
— the quality of being caustic
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Greek:
καυστικότητα
(kafstikótita)
— the quality of being caustic
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Irish:
loiscneacht
— the quality of being caustic
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Italian:
causticità
— the quality of being caustic
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Portuguese:
causticidade
— the quality of being caustic
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Spanish:
causticidad
— the quality of being caustic
