Solution

Quick meaning: Solution is a noun meaning (physical chemistry) A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.

Meaning

(physical chemistry) A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.

More Meanings

1. An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
2. An answer to a problem.
3. (marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
4. (law, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
5. The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
6. (medicine, archaic) The crisis of a disease.
7. To treat with a solution.

Example Sentences

Meronyms: solvent, solute

he was not obliged to repeat what he had received, in solution of a just debt

States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.

A disposition granted on a cessio bonorum is merely in farther security to the creditors, not in satisfaction or in solution of the debts.

Word Forms

• solutions
• solutioning
• solutioned

Synonyms for solution

Depending on context, synonyms include resolution, dissolution, root, answer, result.

Antonyms for solution

Common opposites include problem, challenge, issue, precipitation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include root, result, answer, resolution, liquid, dissolved.

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