DISSOLVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissolved mean? 

• DISSOLVED (adjective)
  The adjective DISSOLVED has 1 sense:

1. (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form

  Familiarity information: DISSOLVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSOLVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form

Context example:

add the dissolved gelatin

Similar:

liquid; liquified; melted (changed from a solid to a liquid state)

 Context examples 

A tablet dissolved in solvent and intended for administration by hypodermic injection.

(Hypodermic Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A clear, pleasantly flavored, sweetened hydroalcoholic liquid containing dissolved medicinal agents; it is intended for oral use.

(Elixir Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A solution composed of a clear, sweetened hydroalcoholic liquid in which active and/or inert ingredient(s) are dissolved.

(Elixir Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Liquid water on today's Mars may be limited to traces of dissolved moisture from the atmosphere and thin films, which are challenging environments for life as we know it.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

This process excites dissolved metals, thereby causing them to emit radiation in both the UV and visible spectrum.

(Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer, NCI Thesaurus)

Growth spurts of this large seaweed are fueled by a diet of dissolved nitrogen.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)

A liquid preparation containing one or more drug substances dissolved in a suitable solvent or mixture of mutually miscible solvents that is suitable for injection.

(Injectable Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

In the remaining 63 percent of the ocean, most of the sediment beneath the seafloor is expected to lack dissolved oxygen and to contain anaerobic communities.

(No limit to life in deep sediment of ocean's "deadest" region, NSF)

They reported, "Macroalgae are suggested to disrupt coral microbiomes via transfer of allelochemicals or microbes or release of dissolved organic carbon that affects microbial growth".

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)

A granule composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s), and a mixture of acids and sodium bicarbonate, which release carbon dioxide when dissolved in water.

(Effervescent Granule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)