Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to two or more fluid substances that are capable of being mixed in all proportions under given conditions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In physical chemistry, commonly soluble: when two solvents which do not mix are in contact and have each in solution a given third substance, the latter is sometimes said to be consolute, that is, to be a solute common to the two solvents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry Describing
liquids that are totallymiscible in all proportions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin cōnsolūtus, dissolved together : Latin com-, together; see com– + Latin solūtus, past participle of solvere, to loosen, dissolve; see leu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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Finally, those Jewish groups who celebrated and danced over the massacres in Gaza on the streets of New York city infront of the Israeli consolute on January 11th should put their heads to shame!
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