HALIDE
Dictionary entry overview: What does halide mean?
• HALIDE (noun)
The noun HALIDE has 1 sense:
1. a salt of any halogen acid
Familiarity information: HALIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HALIDE (noun)
Meaning:
A salt of any halogen acid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("halide" is a kind of...):
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "halide"):
bromide (any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs)
fluoride (a salt of hydrofluoric acid)
iodide (a salt or ester of hydriodic acid)
chloride (any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion))
tetrahalide (any halide containing four halogen atoms in it molecules)
