See Also: solvable(dictionary)

solvable (iou)



solvable adjective. M17.
[from SOLVE + -ABLE, in sense 1 after French.]
Able to pay one's debts etc.; solvent. M17-L18.
Of a problem etc.: able to be solved. L17.
b. Math. Of a group: that may be regarded as the last of a finite series of groups of which the first is trivial, each being a normal subgroup of the next and each of the quotients being abelian. L19.