solution
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
chemistry
law
marketing
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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.
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: solutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: solutions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: solutioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: solutioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: solutioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: Meronyms: solvent, solute
gloss: An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: An answer to a problem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
countable
rare
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This accounts for the very rapid vegetation in the northern latitudes, after the solution of the snows.
gloss: The crisis of a disease.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: To treat with a solution.
pos: verb
examples: The reason for having the rubber so thick is that the cuts one is bound to get do not penetrate right through the rubber to the canvas or fabric, as I found it was really throught htis latter rotting that the trouble with the tyres occurred, whereas, when I had thick rubber, and particularly, be it noted, not one piece of rubber, but two pieces, namely, the rubber, cover proper and then a thick rubber band solutioned on top of this, I found from experience that, say, the rubber was half an inch thick, the cuts seemed to go much more easily through one piece of rubber than they did through two pieces of rubber, each a quarter of an inch thick, solutioned together.
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.
Derived words: 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
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
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
Wackenroder solution
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