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a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution; "he used a solution of peroxide and water"

a method for solving a problem; "the easy solution is to look it up in the handbook"

a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution; "he used a solution of peroxide and water"

a method for solving a problem; "the easy solution is to look it up in the handbook"

The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.

The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.

The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.

The termination of a disease; resolution.

A crisis.

A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.

The division of a body into its component parts; the state of being so divided; the process of causing any substance to be absorbed into a liquid; also, the liquid resulting from such a process; as, a salt solution; explanation; as, the solution of a mystery; process of solving, or answer to, a problem.

Liquid in which a solid has been dissolved.

Act of solving or dissolving, esp. a solid by a fluid: the separating of the parts of any body: the preparation resulting from dissolving a solid in a liquid: explanation: removal of a doubt: construction or solving of a problem.

Act of dissolving; preparation made by dissolving a solid in a fluid; act of solving; explanation.

The act or process of dissolving; the preparation made by dissolving a solid in a liquid.

The act or process of solving.

An operation which consists in dissolving a solid body in a menstruum. Likewise, the product of such operation, - Solu'tum, (F.) Solute. It means, also, with many, the termination of a disease :-with others, a termination accompanied by critical signs; - and, with others, again, it is synonymous with crisis.

Process of dissolving.

Liquid containing dissolved matter. See also Contiguity, Solution of, and Continuity, Solution of.

The act or process by which a substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, becomes diffused throughout a liquid and incorporated with it in a state of molecular subdivision.

The state or condition of being thus incorporated with a liquid.

The resulting product, consisting of the liquid with the substance so incorporated.

The act of separating.

Of the U. S. Ph., an aqueous s. of a non-volatile substance. See also aqua and spiritus. alcoholic s. A s. in which alcohol is employed as the solvent.

n. [Latin] Act of separating the parts of any body ; disruption; breach ;- the disentanglement of any intricate problem or question-used especially in mathematics ;-state of being solved or disintegrated; disintegration ;-removal of a doubt ; clearing of an intellectual difficulty; explanation; resolution ;-the reduction of a body to a liquid or fluid state by chemical agents ; the matter reduced or dissolved that which contains the matter dissolved;-the preparation made by dissolving a solid in a liquid;- release from an obligation ; especially, release from a debt by payment ; deliverance; discharge ;-termination of a disease ;-a crisis.