About The Word Soluble
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Soluble
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What's The Definition Of Soluble?
[adj] (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water)
[adj] susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained; "the puzzle is soluble" Synonyms | Synonyms for Soluble: answerable | disintegrable | dissoluble | dissolvable | meltable | resolvable | solvable | water-soluble Related Terms | Find terms related to Soluble: See Also | explicable Soluble In Webster's Dictionary \Sol"u*ble\, a. [L. solubilis, fr. solvere, solutum, to
loosen, to dissolve: cf. F. soluble. See {Solve}, and cf.
{Solvable}.]
1. Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of
solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which
are not soluble in water.
Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire.
--Arbuthnot.
2. Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic
problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or
explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. ``More
soluble is this knot.'' --Tennyson.
3. Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] ``The bowels must be
kept soluble.'' --Dunglison.
{Soluble glass}. (Chem.) See under {Glass}.
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