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2 meanings

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1 —as in:
a chemical solvent

Definition

a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances

solvent = a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The Judge's face, indeed, rigid and singularly white, refuses to melt into this universal solvent.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- House Of Seven Gables
It was a pursuit like unto that of the Universal Solvent of the mediaeval alchemists.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution

2 —as in:
the company is not solvent

Definition

capable of meeting financial obligations

solvent = capable of meeting financial obligations

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
John Maynard Keynes
He's under the thumb of a villainous money-lender; we are solvent citizens.
Hornung, E. W. -- The Amateur Cracksman
An electrical fault ignited solvents used by the owner to clean, polish and restore her antiques.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
I could smell the faint odor of the stream we had splashed through on the last leg of our journey: solvents.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Maybe it was the fumes of the benzine and other solvents in the dry cleaner's shop.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Cancerous solvents from storage tanks, arsenic from smokestacks, radioactive water from power plants.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
On stainless-steel cars, solvents were used.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
He showed Charles Chappell into a second-floor room that contained a table, medical instruments, and bottles of solvents.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
The janitorial closet smelled pungently of bleach and cleaning solvents.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot

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