Usually means: Substance that dissolves another material.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissolvent: Merriam-Webster
  2. dissolvent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissolvent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dissolvent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dissolvent: Vocabulary.com
  6. dissolvent: Wordnik
  7. dissolvent: Wiktionary
  8. dissolvent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dissolvent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dissolvent: Dictionary.com
  11. Dissolvent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. dissolvent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. dissolvent: Rhymezone
  14. Dissolvent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. dissolvent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. dissolvent: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dissolvent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. dissolvent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dissolvent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissolvent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See dissolve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dissolvent)

adjective:  Capable of dissolution into a fluid.
adjective:  Having power to dissolve a solid body.
noun:  A substance which can dissolve or be dissolved into a liquid.

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