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Definition of Solidus
1. Noun. A gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages.
2. Noun. A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.
Generic synonyms: Punctuation, Punctuation Mark
Definition of Solidus
1. Noun. The line between the numerator and the denominator of a fraction. ¹
2. Noun. A forward slash or virgule. ¹
3. Noun. A late Roman gold coin (after 3rd Century CE); a bezant. ¹
4. Noun. (context: chemistry physics) a line, in a phase diagram, below which a given substance is a stable solid and above which solid and liquid are in equilibrium ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Solidus
1. a coin of ancient Rome [n -DI]
Medical Definition of Solidus
1. That line on a constitution diagram indicating the temperature below which all metal is solid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solidus
Literary usage of Solidus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental To: (1) The by Frederic Seebohm (1902)
"The traditional solidus of the district presumably nearest to the Jutes, ie on
both the Frisian and the Saxon side of the Weser, was the solidus of two ..."
2. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Burning Steel by Heating it above the solidus.—The burning of steel, both hypo-
and hyper-eutectoid, with its resultant granular fracture, is brought about ..."
3. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The abscissae of the liquidus also measure the theoretical carbon content of the
residual molten metal at any given temperature. 281. The solidus curve,1 ..."
4. Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental To: (1) The by Frederic Seebohm (1902)
"We have no distinct mention of a Jutish solidus, but as the Jutes probably came
from a district not far from that of the North Frisians and Saxons there 1 ..."
5. International Medallic Exhibition of the American Numismatic Society ...by American Numismatic Society by American Numismatic Society (1910)
"Pulcheria, wife of Marcianus, 450-453 AD 316 N solidus. Constantinople. ...
BYZANTINE EMPIRE Zeno, 474-496 AD 318 N solidus. Uncertain mint. ..."
6. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1898)
"As is shown above, a solidus on the private standard was worth only j^£ of a
solidus on the Alexandrian standard, yet here i solidus less 4 carats, ..."