nitrate

1. 1.

   treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate

   “nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol”

   Broaderprocess

   chemistry

Other forms of nitrate

plural

nitrates·

past tense

nitrated·

present participle

nitrating·

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 nitrate

What does nitrate mean?

nitrate means "any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nitrate?

nitrate has 2 syllables: ni-trate. The stress falls on "ni". In IPA it is /ˈnaɪˌtɹeɪt/.

Is nitrate a common word?

nitrate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nitrate?

6 words rhyme with nitrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.