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noun
Any salt or ester of sorbic acid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: material, stuff
Narrower terms: absorbate, adsorbate
History
From sorbic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
