technical grade

1. 1.

   containing small amounts of other chemicals, hence slightly impure

   “technical-grade sulfuric acid”

   Synonymstechnical-grade

   Similarimpure

   chemistry

Questions about technical grade

What does technical grade mean?

technical grade means "containing small amounts of other chemicals, hence slightly impure".

What is another word for technical grade?

Close synonyms include technical-grade. 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 technical grade a common word?

technical grade 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.