solution – English noun declension

English noun forms of solution

Noun: solution
Singularsolution
Pluralsolutions

Sample Sentences

  • Meronyms: solvent, solute
  • The only solution is new regulations.
  • All too often, computer technology is treated as a solution in search of a problem. In fact, it is not uncommon for people working with computers to become critical of the problem because it doesn't seem to fit the solution they have generated. [1971, O. Phillip Hicks, “The Computer: Is It the Solution or the Problem?”, in ACM: Proceedings of 1971 Annual Conference, page 362:]
  • The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model. [2013 June 29, Leo Montada, “Coping with Life Stress”, in Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt, editors, Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2: Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:]
  • How many beautiful creations, how many glorious dreams went with him to the tomb! but the unfulfilled destiny of genius is a mystery whose solution is not of earth. [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Parting”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 322:]
  • Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery. [1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:]
  • States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem. [2022 February 7, Charles Hugh Smith, How Empires Die:]
  • he was not obliged to repeat what he had received, in solution of a just debt [1681, Scotland. Court of Session, edited by Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee and William Maxwell Morison, The decisions of the Court of Session, published 1802, page 2927:]
  • A disposition granted on a cessio bonorum is merely in farther security to the creditors, not in satisfaction or in solution of the debts. [1827, John Erskine, The Principles of the Law of Scotland, page 508:]
  • It is said that there is no violation of the law of this State in the simple act of paying money in solution of a promise to do so [1879, “Conflict of Law — Promissory notes governed by law of place where made and payable”, in Albany Law Journal, volume 20:]
  • This accounts for the very rapid vegetation in the northern latitudes, after the solution of the snows. [1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 28:]

Etymology

From Middle English solucioun, from Old French solucion (French solution), from Latin solūtiōnem, accusative singular of solūtiō, from the verb solvō. Compare solve, -tion. See: Middle English Nouns 'solucioun', French Nouns 'solution'.

Verbs referencing "solution"

Finnish Nouns soluutio.