table salt

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table salt (usually uncountable, plural table salts)

2. Sodium chloride or a mineral product chiefly composed of it: the salt most commonly used to season food at table.

   Coordinate terms: kitchen salt, rock salt, sea salt (sometimes coinstantial), road salt

   Near-synonyms: common salt, salt (broad sense), NaCl, kosher salt

• Usually used to distinguish from other compounds called salts by chemists.