solution
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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.
Pronunciation
Noun
solution (countable and uncountable, plural solutions)
- (physical chemistry) A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
- An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
- Synonym: resolution
- 1971, O. Phillip Hicks, “The Computer: Is It the Solution or the Problem?”, in ACM: Proceedings of 1971 Annual Conference, page 362:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- An answer to a problem.
- Synonym: resolution
- Antonyms: problem, challenge, issue
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Parting”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 322:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- (marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
- Hypernyms: aid, help, resolution, problemsolver
- (law, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
- 1879, “Conflict of Law — Promissory notes governed by law of place where made and payable”, in Albany Law Journal, volume 20:
- 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
- The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
- Synonym: dissolution
- Antonym: precipitation
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 28:
- This accounts for the very rapid vegetation in the northern latitudes, after the solution of the snows.
- (medicine, archaic) 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, 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
- trivial solution
- two-state solution
- Tyrode's solution
Related terms
Translations
liquid mixture
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an act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
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answer to a problem (mathematics)
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satisfaction of a claim or debt
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Verb
solution (third-person singular simple present solutions, present participle solutioning, simple past and past participle solutioned)
- To treat with a solution.
- 1898 August 6, Tavistock Chambers, “Correspondence: Some Interesting Tyre Experiences”, in The Autocar, volume 3, number 114, page 508:
- 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.
- 1903, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 23:
- 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.
- 2014, Peter Rudolph, Handbook of Crystal Growth: Bulk Crystal Growth, →ISBN, page 423:
- 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Old French solucion, from Latin solūtiōnem, from the verb solvō.
Pronunciation
Noun
solution f (plural solutions)
- solution
- ne pas trouver de solutions à ses problèmes ― not to be able to solve one's problems
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “solution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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