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What does caustic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word caustic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
  2. (language) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
Noun
  1. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
  2. (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
  3. (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
  4. (chemistry) Caustic soda.
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