solvable

== English == === Alternative forms === solvible (obsolete) === Etymology === From solve +‎ -able. Piecewise doublet of soluble. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒlvəbəl/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɑlvəbəl/ === Adjective === solvable Capable of being solved. Synonym: soluble Antonyms: unsolvable, insolvable, insoluble 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, London: William Shrowsbery, “De homine,” Chapter 2, p. 56,[2] Intellective Memory, which I call an act of the intellective faculty because it is wrought by it, though I do not inquire how or where, because it is not solvible: 1856, Abraham Lincoln, Speech delivered before the first Republican State Convention of Illinois, Bloomington, 29 May, 1856, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley (ed.), The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, Volume 2, p. 271,[4] It is a very strange thing, and not solvable by any moral law that I know of, that if a man loses his horse, the whole country will turn out to help hang the thief; but if a man but a shade or two darker than I am is himself stolen, the same crowd will hang one who aids in restoring him to liberty. (mathematics) various senses relating to terminating sequences or computability: (group theory, of a group) Having terminating derived series; see Solvable group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Galois theory, of a Galois extension) Having a Galois group which is solvable. (Lie theory, of a Lie algebra) Having terminating derived series (this is a distinct notion from the derived series of a group); see Solvable Lie algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (computer science, of a decision problem) Such that the set of inputs for which the answer is yes is recursively enumerable. Coordinate terms: computable, decidable (obsolete) Capable of being dissolved or liquefied. Synonym: soluble Antonyms: unsolvable, insolvable, insoluble 1664, John Chandler (translator), Van Helmont’s Works, London: Lodowick Lloyd, A Treatise of Fevers, Chapter 8, p. 971,[7] […] they administer Pearles, and Corrals being beaten to dust or dissolved in distilled vinegar, or the juice of limons, and again dryed, and solvable in any potable liquour: (obsolete) Able to pay one's debts. Synonym: solvent (obsolete, rare) Capable of being paid and discharged. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== solvability ==== Translations ==== === References === == French == === Etymology === From Latin solvere +‎ -able. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɔl.vabl/ === Adjective === solvable (plural solvables) solvent Antonym: insolvable ==== Related terms ==== soluble === Further reading === “solvable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012