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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dissolvēns.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dissolvent (comparative more dissolvent, superlative most dissolvent)
- Capable of dissolution into a fluid.
- Synonyms: dissoluble, dissolvable, soluble
- Antonyms: undissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble
- Having power to dissolve a solid body.
- Synonym: solvent
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC:the dissolvent juices
Translations
capable of dissolution into a fluid
having power to dissolve a solid body
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Noun
dissolvent (plural dissolvents)
- A substance which can dissolve or be dissolved into a liquid.
- Synonym: solvent
1669 August 26, “ III. Ottonis Tachenii Hippocrates Chymicus. Venetiis in 12º.”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume IV, number 50, London: Printed by T. N. for John Martyn , printer to the Royal Society, published 1670, →OCLC, pages 1019–1020:For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were not furniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them.
Latin
Verb
dissolvent
- third-person plural future active indicative of dissolvō