different between acetate vs sextate

English

Etymology

Formed from the root of Latin ac?tum (“vinegar”) ( +? -ate), from ace? (“I am sour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs?te??t/

Noun

acetate (plural acetates)

1. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of acetic acid.

   Synonym: ethanoate

2. Cellulose acetate.
3. A transparent sheet used for overlays.
4. Ellipsis of acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.

   Coordinate term: dubplate

   • 2002, Dave Thompson, The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting, Hal Leonard Corporation (?ISBN), Acetates—The Rock Star's Rough Draft:

     Acetates are a relic of the days before cassettes, DAT, and recordable CDs came into widespread use in recording studios. Manufactured from aluminum, and coated in a thin sheet of vinyl, they were produced to allow the concerned parties to hear how a particular version of a recording would sound outside the studio, on their home hi-fi, for example.

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• acetate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• acetate disc on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) enPR: s?ks?t?t, IPA^(key): /?s?kste?t/

Verb

sextate (third-person singular simple present sextates, present participle sextating, simple past and past participle sextated)

1. (rare) Reduce by one sixth.
   • 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalyp?e Revealed II, page 101

     Becau?e ?ix ?ignified Full, the Word to ?extate (to divide into ?ix, of to give a ?ixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ?piritual Sen?e is ?ignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ?hould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ?aid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ?ixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ?ignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ?hould be totally de?troyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ?een N. 850.

2. (rare) Reduce to one sixth.
   • 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalyp?e Revealed II, page 101

     Becau?e ?ix ?ignified Full, the Word to ?extate (to divide into ?ix, of to give a ?ixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ?piritual Sen?e is ?ignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ?hould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ?aid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ?ixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ?ignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ?hould be totally de?troyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ?een N. 850.

   • 1883, Thomas Goyder et al., The Science of Correspondences Elucidated (6th ed.), page 450

     By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.

Coordinate terms

• (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part): tertiate (?), quintate (?), septimate (?), decimate (?), duodecimate (¹???), centesimate (¹????)

Adjective

sextate (not comparable)

1. (rare) sixfold; In groups of six.
   • 1907, Albert Mann and Percy Leroy Ricker, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888–1904, page 293

     De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.

2. (rare, physics) sixfold degenerate
   • 1967, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society XLIV:ii, page 990

     The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.

Noun

sextate

1. (rare, spectroscopy) A group of six peaks or lines
   • 1981, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: Physical sciences I, page 199

     Mössbauer spectrum of pure ?? Fe?O? (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.

   • 1987, Minoru Takahashi et al. [eds.], Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987, page 392

     The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.