hemiacetal

1. 1.

   an organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones

   Broaderorganic compound

Other forms of hemiacetal

plural

hemiacetals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hemiacetal

What does hemiacetal mean?

hemiacetal means "an organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones".

How many syllables are in hemiacetal?

hemiacetal has 5 syllables: he-mi-a-ce-tal. The stress falls on "a".

Is hemiacetal a common word?

hemiacetal 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.