(rare) Tending to produce relaxation (as of the bowels); having laxative properties.

present participle of solute

simple past tense and past participle of solute

Relating to a solution (to a problem). / Relating to, or formed by, the process of dissolving.

present participle of solution

plural of Fehling's solution

(historical) The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see final, solution.

An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite, used as a disinfectant.

(mathematics, economics) A solution to a minimization or maximization problem where an interior solution is infeasible.

(chemistry) An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, or white arsenic.