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Word: caustic
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue
- of language etc sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic
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Noun:
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- informal|chemistry caustic soda
- optics|computer graphics The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- mathematics The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
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