hydrochloric acid

1. 1.

   an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride; a strongly corrosive acid

   Synonymschlorohydric acid

   Broaderacid

   Narrowermuriatic acid

Questions about hydrochloric acid

What does hydrochloric acid mean?

hydrochloric acid means "an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride; a strongly corrosive acid".

What is another word for hydrochloric acid?

Close synonyms include chlorohydric acid. 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 hydrochloric acid a common word?

hydrochloric acid 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.