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noun/səˈl(j)uːʃən/
  1. 1

    A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.countablephysicaluncountable

    • Meronyms: solvent, solute
  2. 2

    An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.countableuncountable

    • 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 genera
    • 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^
  3. 3

    An answer to a problem.countableuncountable

    • 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.
  4. 4

    A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.countableuncountable

  5. 5

    Satisfaction of a claim or debt.UKarchaiccountable

    • 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.
  6. 6

    The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.countableuncountable

    • This accounts for the very rapid vegetation in the northern latitudes, after the solution of the snows.
  7. 7

    The crisis of a disease.archaiccountableuncountable

verb/səˈl(j)uːʃən/
  1. 1

    To treat with a solution.transitive

    • 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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