HALIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does halide mean? 

• HALIDE (noun)
  The noun HALIDE has 1 sense:

1. a salt of any halogen acid

  Familiarity information: HALIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt of any halogen acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("halide" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "halide"):

bromide (any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs)

fluoride (a salt of hydrofluoric acid)

iodide (a salt or ester of hydriodic acid)

chloride (any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion))

tetrahalide (any halide containing four halogen atoms in its molecules)

 Context examples 

As a substrate for glutathione S-transferase, this agent reacts with a number of harmful chemical species, such as halides, epoxides and free radicals, to form harmless inactive products.

(Glutathione, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid, white, organo-halide carcinogen with a musty odor that consists for 78% of 2,2-Bis(Bromomethyl)-1,3-Propanediol.

(BBMP, NCI Thesaurus)

The solar cells in the study are based on metal halide perovskites – a promising group of ionic semiconductor materials that in just a few short years of development now rival commercial thin film photovoltaic technologies in terms of their efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)