acid value

1. 1.

   (chemistry) the amount of free acid present in fat as measured by the milligrams of potassium hydroxide needed to neutralize it

   “as the glycerides in fat slowly decompose the acid value increases”

   Broaderdefinite quantity

   chemistry

Questions about acid value

What does acid value mean?

acid value means "(chemistry) the amount of free acid present in fat as measured by the milligrams of potassium hydroxide needed to neutralize it".

Is acid value a common word?

acid value 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.