'ethanol' definitions:
Definition of 'ethanol'
(from WordNet)
noun
The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline [syn: ethyl alcohol, ethanol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol]
Definition of 'ethanol'
From: GCIDE
- ethanol \eth"an*ol\ ([e^]th"[a^]n*[add]l), n. (Chem.) The organic compound C2H5.OH, the common alcohol which is the intoxicating agent in beer, wine, and other fermented and distilled liquors; called also ethyl alcohol. It is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions, or mixed in gasoline as a fuel for automobiles, and as a rocket fuel (as in the V-2 rocket).
- Syn: ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol. [WordNet 1.5]