cellulose nitrate

1. 1.

   a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives

   Synonymsnitrocelluloseguncottonnitrocotton

   Broadercellulose esternitrate

   Narrowerpyrocellulosepyroxylin

Questions about cellulose nitrate

What does cellulose nitrate mean?

cellulose nitrate means "a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives".

What is another word for cellulose nitrate?

Close synonyms include nitrocellulose, guncotton, nitrocotton. 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 cellulose nitrate a common word?

cellulose nitrate 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.