resoluble

¹ American  

[ri-zol-yuh-buhl, rez-uhl-] / rɪˈzɒl yə bəl, ˈrɛz əl- /

adjective

1. capable of being resolved.

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resoluble ² American  

[ree-sol-yuh-buhl] / riˈsɒl yə bəl /

adjective

1. able to be redissolved.

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resoluble British  

/ ˈrɛzəl-, rɪˈzɒljʊbəl /

adjective

1. another word for resolvable

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Other Word Forms

• resolubility noun
• resolubleness noun

Etymology

Origin of resoluble¹

1595–1605; < Late Latin resolūbilis, equivalent to Latin resolū-, variant stem of resolvere to resolve + -bilis -ble

Origin of resoluble²

First recorded in 1830–40; re- + soluble

Example Sentences

"There remains however among the happenings met with in such a compound organism as ourselves," says Sherrington, "... a certain residue seemingly not thus resoluble" into chemico-physical energy-systems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay nor perhaps all Vegetables, which may appear by what we said above of Camphire, Benzoin, &c. are resoluble by Fire into just such differing Schemes of Matter.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert