Definition of Solvable

1. Adjective. Capable of being solved. "Such problems are perfectly solvable"

Exact synonyms: Resolvable
Similar to: Soluble
Derivative terms: Solvability

Definition of Solvable

1. a. Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.

Definition of Solvable

1. Adjective. Capable of being solved. ¹

2. Adjective. (archaic) Capable of being dissolved or liquefied. ¹

3. Adjective. (obsolete) Capable of being paid and discharged. ¹

4. Adjective. (obsolete) Able to pay one's debts; solvent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Solvable

1. capable of being solved [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solvable

solus
solutal
solute
solutes
solutio
solution
solution of contiguity
solution of continuity
solution pressure
solutionism
solutionless
solutions
solutive
solvabilities
solvability
solvable (current term)
solvableness
solvate
solvated
solvates
solvating
solvating agent
solvation
solvations
solvatochromic
solvatochromism
solve
solved
solvencies
solvency

Literary usage of Solvable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... could be solvable only in lawful currency. If se, then the bonds in question were paying nearly twelve per cent interest at the date of their issue. ..."

2. Theory and Applications of Finite Groups by George Abram Miller, Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Leonard Eugene Dickson (1916)
"A group is said to be solvable if, and only if, it contains a series of ... Hence the symmetric group of order 24 is solvable. The numbers 2, 3, 2, ..."

3. Theory and Applications of Finite Groups by George Abram Miller, Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Leonard Eugene Dickson (1916)
"A group is said to be solvable if, and only if, it contains a series of ... Hence the symmetric group of order 24 is solvable. The numbers 2, 3, 2, ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"+x+i*=o has been considered for Us own sake, but it also serves as a specimen of a class of equations solvable by radicals, considered by NH Abel (1828), ..."

5. Toda Lattices, Cosymplectic Manifolds, Bäcklund Transformations, and Kinks by Robert Hermann (1977)
"RELATIVE CONSTANTS OF MOTION DETERMINED BY solvable LIE GROUPS Keep the ... Now, solvable Lie groups always admit one-dimensional linear representation. ..."

6. A Treatise on Differential Equations by George Boole (1877)
"EQUATIONS solvable BY DIFFERENTIATION. Equations solvable by differentiation. 9. A remarkable class of equations, the theory of which has been fully ..."

7. Sophus Lie's 1880 transformation group paper by Sophus Lie, Robert Hermann (1975)
"H NON-ABELIAN solvable, C/H NON-ABELIAN solvable In Section 5, we have determined a canonical form for H, ..."

8. Spinors, Clifford, and Cayley Algebras by Robert Hermann (1974)
"LIE'S THEOREM ON solvable LIE ALGEBRAS The theorem, which we will state precisely, later on, asserts that any solvable Lie algebra over the complex number ..."

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