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nitrate   (TTS Sound)

The noun nitrate has 1 sense

• nitrate -- (any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid))

The verb nitrate has 1 sense

• nitrate -- (treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate; "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol")