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/səˈl(j)uːʃən/
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səˈl(j)uːʃən
Noun
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
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Meronyms: solvent, solute
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
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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.
An answer to a problem.
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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.
A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
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Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
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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.
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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.
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This accounts for the very rapid vegetation in the northern latitudes, after the solution of the snows.
The crisis of a disease.
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Verb
To treat with a solution.
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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.
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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.
Noun
a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution
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he used a solution of peroxide and water
a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
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they were trying to find a peaceful solution
the answers were in the back of the book
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he computed the result to four decimal places
a method for solving a problem
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the easy solution is to look it up in the handbook
the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
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the successful action of solving a problem
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the solution took three hours