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Alcohol vs Abv - What's the difference?

alcohol | abv | initialism |

Alcohol is a initialism of abv.


As a noun alcohol

is .

As an initialism abv is

alcohol by volume.

alcohol

English

(wikipedia alcohol)

Noun

  • (organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
  • (uncountable) An intoxicating beverage made by the fermentation of sugar or sugar-containing material.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
  • (obsolete) Any very fine powder.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * -holic * -holism * -ol * alcohol abuse * alcoholic * alcoholism * low-alcohol * non-alcoholic * nonalcoholic

    References

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    abv

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • alcohol by volume
    • At only 2% ABV , this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.

    See also

    * (Alcohol by volume)

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words