nitrostat

Other forms of nitrostat

plural

nitrostats·

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 nitrostat

What does nitrostat mean?

nitrostat means "a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nitrostat?

nitrostat has 3 syllables and divides as ni-tro-stat under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nitrostat?

Close synonyms include nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate, Nitrospan. 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 nitrostat a common word?

nitrostat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.