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Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations. Tooke.

Quality of being solvable.

That may be absolved.

-- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated; incapable oas, an indissolvable bond of union. Bp. Warburton.

Indissolubleness.

Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. I. Watts.

Incapable of being resolved; not separable into component parts. Irresolvable nebulæ (Astron.), nebulæ of a cloudlike appearance, which have not yet been resolved by the telescope into stars. Sir W. Herschel.

The quality or state of being irresolvable; irresolvability.

tituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.

The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.

or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel.

Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements.

The quality or state of being insoluble or not dissolvable, as in a fluid.

Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.

The quality of being irresolvable; irresolvableness.

Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire. Boyle. -- Res"o*lu*ble*ness, n.

The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.

The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.

The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.