1. Adjective
Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.
2. Adjective
Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.
3. Noun
A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.
4. Noun
That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.
5. Noun
The liquid or material that dissolves something else.
A substance that dissolves another substance to form a solution.
“Water acted as the solvent.”
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