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Soluble
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Soluble has 2 senses
- soluble(a = adj.all) Array - (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water); Array Antonym: insoluble
- soluble(a = adj.all) Array - susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained; "the puzzle is soluble" Antonym: insoluble
Derived forms noun solubility3, noun solubility1, noun solubleness1
Derived form noun solubility2
CIDE DICTIONARY
Soluble, a. [L. solubilis, fr. solvere, solutum, to loosen, to dissolve: cf. F. soluble. See Solve, and cf. Solvable.].
- Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water. [1913 Webster]"Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire." [1913 Webster]
- Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Relaxed; open or readily opened. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Soluble, adj.
1 that can be dissolved, esp. in water.
2 that can be solved.
1 that can be dissolved, esp. in water.
2 that can be solved.
Idiom
soluble glass = water-glass.
Derivative
solubility n.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. LL solubilis (as SOLVE)
ROGET THESAURUS
Soluble
Fluidity
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.Liquefaction
N liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation, colliquefaction, thaw, liquation, deliquation, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest, liquefied, liquescent, liquefiable, deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.
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