Meaning of acid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability, a set of properties that guarantee database transactions are processed reliably.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
2. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar
3. A sour substance.
   countable, uncountable
4. Sour-tempered
5. Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
   countable, uncountable
6. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic
7. Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
   countable, uncountable
8. Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock
9. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
   countable, uncountable
10. A sour substance
11. Any corrosive substance.
    countable, uncountable
12. LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
    slang, uncountable

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Examples

“SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.”

“You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.”

“In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.”

“SQLite relies on native file locking and page journaling to implement ACID properties.”

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