acetal

1. 1.

   any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules

   Broaderorganic compound

Other forms of acetal

plural

acetals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acetal

What does acetal mean?

acetal means "any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules".

How many syllables are in acetal?

acetal has 3 syllables: a-ce-tal. The stress falls on "a".

Is acetal a common word?

acetal 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.