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Etymology

From Middle English solucioun, from Old French solucion (French solution), from Latin solūtiōnem, accusative singular of solūtiō, from the verb solvō. Compare solve, -tion.

derived from solūtiōnem
derived from solucion
inherited from solucioun

Definitions

1
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or…
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
- Meronyms: solvent, solute
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
3
An answer to a problem.
- How many beautiful creations, how many glorious dreams went with him to the tomb! but the unfulfilled destiny of genius is a mystery whose solution is not of earth.
- Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.
- States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.
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1. A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
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  Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
  - he was not obliged to repeat what he had received, in solution of a just debt
  - A disposition granted on a cessio bonorum is merely in farther security to the creditors, not in satisfaction or in solution of the debts.
  - It is said that there is no violation of the law of this State in the simple act of paying money in solution of a promise to do so
3. 6
  The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
  - This accounts for the very rapid vegetation in the northern latitudes, after the solution of the snows.
4. The crisis of a disease.
5. 8
  To treat with a solution.
  - The end of the casing 1 is flanged to receive a rubber tube 21 having and extension 22 to which the air chamber is solutioned or similarly fixed.
  - During the solutioning process, nucleation and growth of secondary phase γ' precipitates occur, in which the embryos are initially of spherical and then cubic shapes.

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Derived

backsolution, banana solution, band-aid solution, Beckmann solution, Benedict's solution, buffer solution, Carrel-Dakin solution, Clerici solution, corner solution, Crone's solution, cryosolution, Dakin's solution, Dobell's solution, eigensolution, exsolution, Fehling's solution, final solution, firing solution, Fowler's solution, Hartmann's solution, Hoagland solution, ideal solution, Knop's solution, Krebs-Henseleit solution, Labarraque's solution, Lugol's solution, Melzer's solution, model solution, molar solution, Monsel's solution, multisolution, nonsolution, nontrivial solution, Pfeffer's solution, piranha solution, problem-reaction-solution, pseudosolution, quasisolution, Ringer's lactate solution, Sachs' solution · +27 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at solution. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at solution. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at solution

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