caustic
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Adjective
- Capable of [[burn]]ing, [[corroding]] or [[destroy]]ing organic tissue.
- {{lb|en|of [[language]], etc.}} [[sharp|Sharp]], [[bitter]], [[cutting]], [[biting]], and [[sarcastic]] in a [[scathing]] way.
Noun
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an [[escharotic]].
- {{lb|en|optics|computer graphics}} The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- {{lb|en|mathematics}} The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- {{lb|en|informal|chemistry|uncountable}} [[caustic soda|Caustic soda]].
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