acetyl group

1. 1.

   the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-)

   Synonymsacetylacetyl radicalethanoyl groupethanoyl radical

   Broaderacyl

Questions about acetyl group

What does acetyl group mean?

acetyl group means "the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-)".

What is another word for acetyl group?

Close synonyms include acetyl, acetyl radical, ethanoyl group, ethanoyl radical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acetyl group a common word?

acetyl group 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.