cellulose ester

1. 1.

   any ester of cellulose with an acid

   Broaderester

   Narrowercellulose nitratecellulose acetatecellulose xanthate

Questions about cellulose ester

What does cellulose ester mean?

cellulose ester means "any ester of cellulose with an acid".

Is cellulose ester a common word?

cellulose ester 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.