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Solve vs Resolver - What's the difference?

solve | resolver |

As verbs the difference between solve and resolver

is that solve is to find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out while resolver is to resolve; to fix.

As a noun solve

is (obsolete) a solution; an explanation.

solve

English

Verb

(solv)
  • To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
  • * South
    • True piety would effectually solve such scruples.
  • * Tickell
    • God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
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  • (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
  • (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.

    • Derived terms

    * resolve * solution

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A solution; an explanation.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

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    resolver

    English

    (wikipedia resolver)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who or that which resolves.
    • Courts are resolvers of disputes.
    a DNS resolver on the Internet
  • A device whose electrical output is proportional to the angular position of an object such as a rotor.
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