SOLUTION

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 43

(Lat. solvere, to untie.) In Mathe, matics, the construction of a proposed problem, or the expre ion of its conditions by an equation which gives i the value of the unknown quantity. i SOMMITE. a mineralogical name of the nephelin of j Somraa and Vesuvius. See Nephblink. I [s. 1143]