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soluble

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From Middle English soluble, from Old French soluble, from Late Latin solūbilis, from Latin solvere (“to loosen”) +‎ -bilis.[1] Equivalent to and a piecewise doublet of solvable.

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soluble (comparative more soluble, superlative most soluble)

  1. (physical chemistry) Able to be dissolved.
    Synonyms: dissolvable, dissoluble
    Antonym: insoluble
    Sugar is soluble in water.
    • 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:
      The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
  2. Able to be solved or explained.
    Synonym: solvable
    Antonym: insoluble
    That mystery should be easily soluble.

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  1. ^ “soluble”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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Borrowed from Latin solūbilis.

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soluble m or f (masculine and feminine plural solubles)

  1. soluble
    Antonym: insoluble

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French

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From Late Latin solubilis, from Latin solvere.

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soluble (plural solubles)

  1. soluble
    Antonym: insoluble
    soluble dans l’eau ― water-soluble

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From Latin solubilis.

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  • IPA(key): /soˈluble/ [soˈlu.β̞le]
  • Rhymes: -uble
  • Syllabification: so‧lu‧ble

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soluble m or f (masculine and feminine plural solubles)

  1. soluble

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