caustic

adjective · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more caustic

Superlative

most caustic

1.
Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
2.
(usually)(of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

caustics

1.
(countable, uncountable)Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
2.
(countable, uncountable)(optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
3.
(countable, uncountable)(mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
4.
(informal, uncountable)(informal, chemistry, uncountable) Caustic soda.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From the Latin causticus (burning), from Ancient Greek καυστικός (burning), from καυστός + -ικός.