, in Mathematics, is the answering or resolving of a question or problem that is proposed. See Resolution, and Reduction of Equations.
Solution, in Physics, is the reduction of a solid or firm body, into a fluid state, by means of some menstruum.—Solution is often confounded with what is called dissolution, though there is a difference.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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