absolute alcohol

1. 1.

   pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than 1% water)

   Broaderethyl alcohol

Questions about absolute alcohol

What does absolute alcohol mean?

absolute alcohol means "pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than 1% water)".

Is absolute alcohol a common word?

absolute alcohol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.