Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to resolve; resolvable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being resolved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting of being resolved; resolvable.
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- adjective Able to be
resolved
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is no guarantee that this process will lead to agreement, any more than the generalist understanding of how disagreements get resolved leads us to suppose that all disagreements are resoluble, if treated properly.
Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009
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But the design is quiet good and the technical problems for plumbing, electricity etc in my opinion are resoluble.
Rotating Wind Power Tower to begin construction in Dubai | Inhabitat 2008
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If the study of life is not one with a peculiar subject-matter, though that subject-matter is resoluble without residue into physico-chemical processes, then we should be compelled ultimately to declare ¦ psychology to be a department of physiology, and physiology of physics and chemistry ¦. (pp. 62-3)
Emergent Properties O'Connor, Timothy 2006
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The dried product in (b) and (c) was entirely resoluble in water; in
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
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Ekman has patented a process (D.R.P. 81,643) for 'salting out' the lignone sulphonates, the product being resoluble in water and the solution having some of the properties of a solution of dextrin.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
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The one in Fig. 42 is made of either light or dark wood, neat, thin, and not very wide, with the ends simply broken, off, or cut so as to resoluble a rough break.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Bodies, whose Ingredients they are, resoluble into more, or other
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Vegetable Bodies, yet 'tis not upon that Account alone, that I think divers Bodies resoluble into more Substances then three.
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Since it is further resoluble into flame, which whether or no it be a portion of the Element of Fire, as an _Aristotelian_ would conclude, is certainly something of a very differing Nature from a Chymical
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Nay nor perhaps all Vegetables, which may appear by what we said above of _Camphire_, _Benzoin_, &c. are resoluble by Fire into just such differing Schemes of Matter.
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