solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈl(j)uːʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: solutions
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.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: solvent, solute
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
examples: text: All too often, computer technology is treated as a solution in search of a problem. In fact, it is not uncommon for people working with computers to become critical of the problem because it doesn't seem to fit the solution they have generated.
ref: 1971, O. Phillip Hicks, “The Computer: Is It the Solution or the Problem?”, in ACM: Proceedings of 1971 Annual Conference, page 362:
text: The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model.
ref: 2013 June 29, Leo Montada, “Coping with Life Stress”, in Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt, editors, Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2: Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
synonyms: resolution
glosses: An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Parting”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 322:
text: 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.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.
ref: 2022 February 7, Charles Hugh Smith, How Empires Die:
synonyms: resolution
antonyms: problem
challenge
issue
glosses: An answer to a problem.
topics: business
marketing
hypernyms: aid#Noun
help#Noun
resolution
problemsolver
glosses: A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
examples: text: he was not obliged to repeat what he had received, in solution of a just debt
ref: 1681, Scotland. Court of Session, edited by Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee and William Maxwell Morison, The decisions of the Court of Session, published 1802, page 2927:
text: A disposition granted on a cessio bonorum is merely in farther security to the creditors, not in satisfaction or in solution of the debts.
ref: 1827, John Erskine, The Principles of the Law of Scotland, page 508:
text: 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
ref: 1879, “Conflict of Law — Promissory notes governed by law of place where made and payable”, in Albany Law Journal, volume 20:
topics: law
glosses: Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
examples: text: This accounts for the very rapid vegetation in the northern latitudes, after the solution of the snows.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 28:
synonyms: dissolution
antonyms: precipitation
glosses: The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The crisis of a disease.
Derived terms: 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
Final 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
Sachs's solution
saline solution
saturated solution
solid solution
solion
solulu
solutional
solution in search of a problem
solutionism
solutionist
solutionization
solutionize
solutionless
solution looking for a problem
solution of continuity
solution-oriented
solution pan
solution pit
solution stack
Spanish solution
subsolution
supersolution
there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
trivial solution
two-state solution
Tyrode's solution