cellulose triacetate

1. 1.

   cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film

   Synonymstriacetate

   Broadercellulose acetate

Questions about cellulose triacetate

What does cellulose triacetate mean?

cellulose triacetate means "cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film".

What is another word for cellulose triacetate?

Close synonyms include triacetate. 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 triacetate a common word?

cellulose triacetate 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.