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/ˈsɒlvəbəl/
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/ˈsɑlvəbəl/
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- General-American
Adjective
Capable of being solved.
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a solvable problem
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1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, London: William Shrowsbery, “De homine,” Chapter 2, p. 56, Intellective Memory, which I call an act of the intellective faculty because it is wrought by it, though I do not inquire how or where, because it is not solvible:
Questions of this Nature may be easily solvable in the simple Cases.
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1856, Abraham Lincoln, Speech delivered before the first Republican State Convention of Illinois, Bloomington, 29 May, 1856, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley (ed.), The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, Volume 2, p. 271, It is a very strange thing, and not solvable by any moral law that I know of, that if a man loses his horse, the whole country will turn out to help hang the thief; but if a man but a shade or two darker than I am is himself stolen, the same crowd will hang one who aids in restoring him to liberty.
Would Mr. Farfrae stay in Casterbridge despite his words and her father’s dismissal? His occult breathings to her might be solvable by his course in that respect.
This is a mystery that is solvable with a phone call.
Capable of being solved. various senses relating to terminating sequences or computability: Having terminating derived series; see Solvable group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Usage- of a group
Capable of being solved. various senses relating to terminating sequences or computability: Having a Galois group which is solvable.
Usage- of a Galois extension
Capable of being solved. various senses relating to terminating sequences or computability: Having terminating derived series (this is a distinct notion from the derived series of a group); see Solvable Lie algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Usage- of a Lie algebra
Capable of being solved. Such that the set of inputs for which the answer is yes is recursively enumerable.
Usage- of a decision problem
Capable of being dissolved or liquefied.
Usage- Obsolete
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1664, John Chandler (translator), Van Helmont’s Works, London: Lodowick Lloyd, A Treatise of Fevers, Chapter 8, p. 971, […] they administer Pearles, and Corrals being beaten to dust or dissolved in distilled vinegar, or the juice of limons, and again dryed, and solvable in any potable liquour:
Able to pay one's debts.
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[…] although imprisonment was imposed by law on persons not solvable, yet officers were unwilling to cast them into goale,
The Government is solvable in case of Loss, whereas private Men often fail;
Capable of being paid and discharged.
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solvable obligations
Adjective
capable of being solved
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such problems are perfectly solvable