Solve

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  • intransitive verb. To find an answer to, explanation for, or way of dealing with (a problem, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To solve an equation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Solution.
  • To loosen; disentangle; unravel; hence, to explain or clear up the difficulties in; resolve; explain; make clear; remove perplexity from: as, to solve a difficulty, a puzzle, or a problem.
  • To determine; put an end to; settle.
  • To determine or work out by rule; operate on by calculation or mathematical processes, so as to bring out the required result: as, to solve a problem in mathematics.
  • To dissolve; melt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • noun. A solution; an explanation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
  • verb. To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
  • verb. 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.
  • noun. A solution; an explanation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. find the solution
  • verb. settle, as of a debt
  • verb. find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
  • Word Usage
    "Too often the result of such instruction is students who can add when told to add, or solve quadratic equations when told to �solve the following quadratic equations,� but cannot decide when to use these techniques in solving problems."
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