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noun
Any salt or ester of citric acid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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verb
To cause to form citrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a salt or ester of citric acid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ester, salt
verb
cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: change state, turn
History
From citric acid + -ate.
From citric acid + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
