adjective. Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.

adjective. Sarcastic or cutting; biting.

adjective. Given to making caustic remarks.

noun. A caustic material or substance.

noun. A hydroxide of a light metal.

noun. The enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration.

The curved surface to which all the rays of a conical pencil of light entering a refractive medium are tangential.

Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying the tissue of animal substances. See causticity.

Figuratively, severely critical or sarcastic; cutting: as, a caustic remark.

noun. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

noun. A caustic curve or caustic surface.

adjective. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

adjective. Severe; satirical; sharp.

adjective. a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane.

adjective. See under Lime.

adjective. the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same.

adjective. undefined

adjective. nitrate of silver, lunar caustic.

adjective. a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.

adjective. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue

adjective. sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic

noun. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

noun. The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.

noun. The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.

noun. caustic soda

noun. any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue

adjective. harsh or corrosive in tone

adjective. of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action