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re·sol·vent

 (rĭ-zŏl′vənt)
adj.
Causing or able to cause separation into constituents; solvent.
n.
A resolvent substance, especially a medicine that reduces inflammation or swelling.
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resolvent

(rɪˈzɒlvənt)
adj
serving to dissolve or separate something into its elements; resolving
n
1. something that resolves; solvent
2. (Medicine) a drug or agent able to reduce swelling or inflammation
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Noun1.resolvent - a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substancesresolvent - a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution"
acetone, dimethyl ketone, propanone - the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics
chlorobenzene - a colorless volatile flammable liquid with an almond odor that is made from chlorine and benzene; used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and DDT and other organic compounds
carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid, phenol - a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally
carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, perchloromethane, tetrachloromethane - a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined
medium - an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent"
hexane - a colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent
menstruum - (archaic) a solvent
naphtha - any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents
remover - a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface); "paint remover"; "rust remover"; "hair remover"
alcahest, alkahest, universal solvent - hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists
methylbenzene, toluene - a colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels
xylene, xylol - a colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent
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References in classic literature ?
Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupin - the creative and the resolvent.
(i) Theorem 3.2 with Corollary 1.1 and Proposition 1.2 in [28] implies that there exists a family of operators S : [0, [infinity]) [greater than or equal to] [laplace](X) (called resolvent of (4.9)) so that a solution v [member of] V (if it exists) is represented by the formula v = d/dt S * F.
La qualification du Maroc au Mondial de Russie et sa candidature pour organiser la Coupe du monde ne resolvent pas la crise structurelle du sport.
by means of a substitution [??] = x + 0.25[a.sub.3]/[a.sub.4] is transformed into the reduced form with a cubic resolvent:
As pointed out in [13], its main ingredients are a Rayleigh-Ritz process and numerical integration of the resolvent [(zB - A).sup.-1]B.
(a) [mathematical expression not reproducible], the resolvent operator R([lambda], A(t)) is given by
For all bounded domains [OMEGA] [subset] [R.sup.d], the operator -[DELTA] has an empty essential spectrum and compact resolvent. The eigenvalues [{[[lambda].sub.n]}.sup.[infinity].sub.n=1] of -[DELTA] written in increasing order and repeated according to multiplicity satisfy
By the approach of fixed point and fractional resolvent under more general settings, the uniqueness and existence of mild solutions for functional differential equations were derived.
Raffoul, "Necessary and sufficient conditions for uniform stability of Volterra integro-dynamic equations using new resolvent equation," Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii Ovidius Constanza.
For a bounded linear operator A [member of] L(X), let [rho](A) and D(A) stand for the resolvent and domain of A, respectively.
This leads to a differential equation for the resolvent G(z) = 1 /N<Tr[(z - M).sup.-1]> in the large N limit whose solution yields the semicircle law.