DISSOLVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissolving mean? 

• DISSOLVING (noun)
  The noun DISSOLVING has 1 sense:

1. the process of going into solution

  Familiarity information: DISSOLVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSOLVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of going into solution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

dissolution; dissolving

Context example:

the dissolving of salt in water

Hypernyms ("dissolving" is a kind of...):

liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

Derivation:

dissolve (pass into a solution)

dissolve (cause to go into a solution)

 Context examples 

At length Lucy exclaimed with a deep sigh, I believe it would be the wisest way to put an end to the business at once by dissolving the engagement.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A group of organic liquid compounds that are used for extracting, dissolving, or suspending other water insoluble compounds.

(Organic Solvents, NCI Thesaurus)

On Earth, bodies of water that formed similarly, by dissolving surrounding limestone, are known as karstic lakes.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)

Encoded by human PTH Gene (Parathyroid Hormone Family), secreted (parathyroid cells) 115-aa 13-kDa (precursor) Parathyroid Hormone elevates blood Ca2+ levels by dissolving the salts in bone and preventing renal excretion.

(Parathyroid hormone, NCI Thesaurus)

Then they both stopped rowing, and unconsciously added a pretty little tableau of human love and happiness to the dissolving views reflected in the lake.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He saw these other scenes through drifting vapors and swirls of sullen fog dissolving before shafts of red and garish light.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An illegal drug composed of the smokable, baseform of cocaine that is produced by dissolving cocaine hydrochloride in an alkali solution, usually sodium bicarbonate and water, and subsequent boiling.

(Crack Cocaine, NCI Thesaurus)

Furthermore, as a serine protease, batroxobin has the potential applications in cardiovascular treatments, such as dissolving thrombus, preventing thrombus formation and improving microcirculation.

(Batroxobin, NCI Thesaurus)

Many conditions can cause the blood to clot too much or prevent blood clots from dissolving properly.

(Blood Clots, NIH)

Although the exact mechanism of isopropanol's disinfecting action is not known, it might kill cells by denaturing cell proteins and DNA, interfering with cellular metabolism, and dissolving cell lipo-protein membranes.

(Isopropyl Alcohol, NCI Thesaurus)