solution
/səˈl(j)uːʃən/ noun A2- A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances. · Meronyms: solvent, solute
- An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
- An answer to a problem.
- A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
- The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
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Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it.
"No doubt you have outlined the solution in your own mind."
He dipped into this bottle or that, drawing out a few drops of each with his glass pipette, and finally brought a test-tube containing a solution over to the table.
And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
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