oleate

[oh-lee-eyt]

noun

Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.

Pharmacology. a preparation, as an ointment, composed of medicated oleic acid.

Origin of oleate

First recorded in 1825–35; ole(ic acid) + -ate²

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Examples from the Web for oleate

Historical Examples of oleate

From this date he used the oleate only once daily, and discontinued it entirely on the 14th.
The Electric Bath
George M. Schweig
Leave it for a day, when the oleate of soda will be dissolved.
Soap-Bubbles
C. V. Boys
Another method of mordanting cotton is to fix the metallic salt on the fibre as a tannate instead of an oleate.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8
Various
We may thus conceive how a small quantity of stearate or oleate of potash may resist the decomposing action of the soda salts.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure
Ointment of ammoniated mercury, twenty to sixty grains to the ounce; oleate of mercury, five to ten per cent.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin
Henry Weightman Stelwagon

British Dictionary definitions for oleate

oleate

noun

any salt or ester of oleic acid, containing the ion C 17 H 33 COO – or the group C 17 H 33 COO-: common components of natural fats

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oleate in Medicine

oleate

[ō′lē-āt′]

n.

A salt or ester of oleic acid.

A pharmacopeial preparation consisting of a combination or solution of an alkaloid or metallic base in oleic acid.