Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. · to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime) · To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. · 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
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA solution; an explanation.
From Middle English solven, from Latin solvō.
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