ABSOLUTE ALCOHOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absolute alcohol mean? 

• ABSOLUTE ALCOHOL (noun)
  The noun ABSOLUTE ALCOHOL has 1 sense:

1. pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than 1% water)

  Familiarity information: ABSOLUTE ALCOHOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSOLUTE ALCOHOL (noun)

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Meaning:

Pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than 1% water)

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("absolute alcohol" is a kind of...):

ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol (the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline)