ACIDIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acidic mean? 

• ACIDIC (adjective)
  The adjective ACIDIC has 2 senses:

1. being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7)

2. being sour to the taste

  Familiarity information: ACIDIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACIDIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7)

Similar:

acid (having the characteristics of an acid)

acid-forming (yielding an acid in aqueous solution)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Antonym:

alkaline (relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7)

amphoteric (having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being sour to the taste

Synonyms:

acid; acidic; acidulent; acidulous

Similar:

sour (having a sharp biting taste)

 Context examples 

Keratins belong to two families: acidic (type I) and basic (type II).

(Cytokeratin 19, NCI Thesaurus)

An acidic glycoprotein of MW 23 kDa with internal disulfide bonds.

(Colony Stimulating Factor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of neutrophils in a biological specimen showing a dark staining pattern in the cytoplasm due to increased acidic content.

(Cytoplasmic Basophilia Neutrophil Count, NCI Thesaurus)

Direct Bilirubin in biological fluids reacts with sulfanilic acid at acidic pH to produce a red colored complex.

(Direct Bilirubin Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Dentin matrix acidic phosphoprotein 1 (513 aa, ~56 kDa) is encoded by the human DMP1 gene.

(Dentin Matrix Acidic Phosphoprotein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used in the treatment of metabolic acidosis (a disorder in which the blood is too acidic).

(Citric acid/potassium-sodium citrate, NCI Dictionary)

Upon intravesical instillation of cis-urocanic acid (cis-UCA), this agent is protonated at the imidazolyl moiety in the mildly acidic extracellular tumor environment and penetrates into the cancer cell.

(cis-Urocanic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

This reagent is yellow in acidic solutions, blue in basic solutions and green in neutral solution.

(Bromthymol Blue, NCI Thesaurus)

A weakly acidic hydrate of boric oxide with mild antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral properties.

(Boric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists found that granite tombstones hosted microbes capable of acidifying their environment — then surviving those acidic conditions.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)