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Definition of Solve

1. Verb. Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of. "He could not work the math problem"

2. Verb. Find the solution. "Solve for x"

3. Verb. Settle, as of a debt. "Solve an old debt"

Definition of Solve

1. v. t. To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.

2. n. A solution; an explanation.

Definition of Solve

1. Verb. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. ¹

2. Verb. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. ¹

3. Verb. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Solve

1. to find the answer or explanation for [v SOLVED, SOLVING, SOLVES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solve

solutions solutive solvabilities solvability solvable solvableness solvate solvated solvates solvating

solvating agent solvation solvations solvatochromic solvatochromism solve (current term) solved solvencies solvency solvend

solvends solvent solvent abuse solvent drag solvent ether solvent extraction solvent inhalation solventless solvently solvents

Literary usage of Solve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Algebra for the Use of Colleges and Schools: With Numerous Examples by Isaac Todhunter (1875)
"\o;+a;-ll/ x + 2 , /a;!-lla; + 19y 3(a;-2) 96. solve x3 + y3 + z3 ... solve a; + 2/=9, ! + i = I, 104. If x varies jointly as y and z; and y varies directly ..."

2. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"solve for y and differentiate. Substitute pdx for dij, and clear of fractions. ... Substitute in the given equation for the auswer. (8) solve ..."

3. New Testament Illustrations: Comprising Choice Selections, Anecdotes by William Basil Jones (1875)
"A HARD PROBLEM TO solve. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? — Mark 8 : 36. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The book raises problems that it does not solve; but the masterly and sympathetic exposition of the Jewish temperament invites a better comprehension of ..."

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