Dictionary Definition
solid adj
1 of definite shape and volume; firm; neither
liquid nor gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state" [ant:
liquid, gaseous]
2 of good substantial quality; "solid comfort";
"a solid base hit"
3 entirely of one substance with no holes inside;
"solid silver"; "a solid block of wood" [ant: hollow]
4 of one substance or character throughout;
"solid gold"; "a solid color"; "carved out of solid rock"
5 uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or
breaks; "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of
water"
6 providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty
meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast" [syn:
hearty, satisfying, substantial]
7 of good quality and condition; solidly built;
"a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" [syn:
strong, substantial]
8 having high moral qualities; "a noble spirit";
"a solid citizen"; "an upstanding man"; "a worthy successor" [syn:
noble, upstanding, worthy]
9 not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm
mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground" [syn:
firm]
10 having three dimensions; "a solid
object"
11 incapable of being seen through; "solid
blackness"
12 entirely of a single color throughout; "a
solid fabric" [syn: self-colored,
self-coloured]
13 acting together as a single undiversified
whole; "a solid voting bloc" [syn: unanimous]
Noun
1 a substance that is solid at room temperature
and pressure
2 the state in which a substance has no tendency
to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression)
that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape [syn:
solidness]
3 a three-dimensional shape
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- In the state of being a solid.
- Large, massive.
- Extremely filling (a solid meal.)
- Lacking holes or hollows (solid gold, solid chocolate.)
- Strong, unyielding (solid foundations.)
- Lacking errors or inconsistencies that would render a theory or concept doubtful.
- Written without spaces or hyphens.
- American English writes words as solid that British English hyphenates or spaces.
Related terms
Translations
In the state of being a solid
- Arabic: (ʂulb)
- Chinese: 堅實, 坚实 (jiānshí)
- Czech: tuhý
- Danish: fast
- Dutch: vast, solide
- Finnish: kiinteä
- French: solide
- German: fest
- Greek: στερεός
- Hungarian: szilárd
- Italian: solido
- Japanese: 固体の (kotai no)
- Korean: 굳다 (gutda), 단단하다 (dandan-hada)
- Norwegian: fast
- Portuguese: sólido , sólida
- Russian: твёрдый
- Serbian: čvrsto, tvrdo
- Slovak: pevný
- Spanish: sólido
- Swedish: fast, i fast form
- Telugu: ఘన (ghana)
Large, massive
Extremely filling
Lacking holes or hollows
Strong, unyielding (as of foundations etc)
- Dutch: solide, stevig
- Finnish: tukeva, vakaa
- French: solide
- German: solide, robust
- Greek: στερεός (stereós) , γερός (yerós)
- Italian: solido
- Korean: 굳다 (gutda), 굳세다 (gutseda)
- Norwegian: solid, kraftig
- Portuguese: sólido , sólida
- Russian: крепкий, прочный
- Swedish: fast, solid
- Telugu: దిట్టము (diTTamu)
- Tok Pisin: strong, strongpela
Lacking errors or inconsistencies
- Danish: grundig, grundfæstet
- Dutch: steekhoudend, gegrond
- Finnish: pitävä, aukoton
- French: solide
- German: stichhaltig
- Japanese: 堅実な (kenjitsu-na), 確実な (kakujitsu-na)
- Korean: 틀림없다 (teullim-eopda)
- Norwegian: solid
- Portuguese: sólido , sólida
- Swedish: solid, gedigen
- ttbc Arabic: (ʂulb)
- ttbc Chinese: 堅實, 坚实 (jiānshí)
- ttbc Interlingua: solide
- ttbc Italian: solido , solida
- ttbc Polish: stały (1), masywny (2), sycący (3), solidny (5), rzetelny (6)
- ttbc Spanish: sólido , sólida
Noun
Translations
chemistry: A fundamental state of matter
- Danish: fast stof
- Dutch: vast
- Finnish: kiinteä aine
- French: solide
- German: Festkörper
- Greek: στερεό
- Japanese: 固体 (kotai)
- Korean: 고체 (固体, goche)
- Portuguese: sólido , sólida
- Russian: твёрдое тело (tvjórdoje télo)
- Slovak: pevná látka
- Spanish: sólido
- Swedish: fast form, fast ämne
- Telugu: ఘన పదార్ధం (ghana padaardhaM)
geometry: a three-dimensional object
Adverb
- without spaces or hyphens.
- Many long-established compounds are set solid.
Danish
Adjective
solid- solid, robust
- strong
- substantial (e.g. et solidt måltid: a substantial meal)
- reliable
Extensive Definition
A solid''' object is in the states of
matter characterized by resistance to deformation and changes of
volume. At the
microscopic scale, a solid has these properties :
- The atoms or molecules that compose the solid are packed closely together.
- These constituent elements have fixed positions in space relative to each other. This
accounts for the solid's rigidity. In mineralogy and
crystallography, a crystal structure is a unique arrangement of
atoms in a crystal. A crystal structure is composed of a unit cell,
a set of atoms arranged in a particular way; which is periodically
repeated in three dimensions on a lattice. The spacing between unit
cellious devoicecal in various directions is called its lattice
parameters. The symmetry properties of the crystal are embodied in
its space group. A crystal's structure and symmetry play a role in
determining many of its properties, such as cleavage, electronic band
structure, and optical properties.
- If sufficient force is applied, either of these properties can be disrupted, causing permanent deformation.
- Because solids have thermal energy, their atoms vibrate. However, this movement is very small, and cannot be observed or felt under ordinary conditions.
The branch of physics that deals with solids
is called solid-state
physics, and is a type of condensed
matter physics. Materials
science is primarily concerned with properties of solids such
as strength and phase
transformations. It overlaps strongly with solid-state physics.
Solid-state
chemistry overlaps both of these fields, but is especially
concerned with the synthesis of novel materials.
The lightest known solid is aerogel. The lightest aerogel
produced has a density of 1.9 mg/cm³ or 1.9 kg/m³ (1/530 the density of
water).
solid in Afrikaans: Vastestof
solid in Arabic: صلب
solid in Bosnian: Čvrsto stanje tvari
solid in Bulgarian: Твърдо тяло
solid in Catalan: Sòlid
solid in Czech: Pevná látka
solid in Danish: Fast form
solid in German: Festkörper
solid in Estonian: Tahkis
solid in Modern Greek (1453-): Στερεό
solid in Spanish: Sólido
solid in Esperanto: Solido
solid in Basque: Solido
solid in Persian: جامد
solid in French: État solide
solid in Galician: Sólido
solid in Korean: 고체
solid in Croatian: Krutine
solid in Indonesian: Padat
solid in Icelandic: Storkuhamur
solid in Italian: Solido
solid in Hebrew: מוצק
solid in Swahili (macrolanguage): mango
solid in Kannada: ಘನ
solid in Latvian: Cieta viela
solid in Lojban: sligu
solid in Hungarian: Szilárd halmazállapot
solid in Macedonian: Цврста агрегатна
состојба
solid in Malay (macrolanguage): Pepejal
solid in Dutch: Vaste stof
solid in Japanese: 固体
solid in Norwegian: Faststoff
solid in Norwegian Nynorsk: Fast stoff
solid in Novial: Solide
solid in Oromo: Solid
solid in Polish: Ciało stałe
solid in Portuguese: Sólido
solid in Romanian: Solid
solid in Quechua: Sinchiyasqa
solid in Russian: Твёрдое тело
solid in Simple English: Solid
solid in Slovak: Pevná látka
solid in Slovenian: Trdnina
solid in Finnish: Kiinteä olomuoto
solid in Swedish: Fast form
solid in Thai: ของแข็ง
solid in Vietnamese: Chất rắn
solid in Turkish: Katı
solid in Ukrainian: Тверде тіло
solid in Chinese: 固体
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
OK, a
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with, atomic, authentic, authoritative, bad, balanced, bang-up, binding, blank, block, body, bony, bonzer, boss, bristling, bulky, bully, but good, cake, calculable, carried by
acclamation, cement,
cemental, changeless, chock-full,
close, close-knit,
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firm, firm as Gibraltar,
firmly, fixed, flintlike, flinty, forceful, frozen, full, full-fledged, full-grown,
full-scale, gear, genuine, global, gluey, good, good for, granitelike, granitic, great, groovy, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, hardly, heavy, homogeneous, honest-to-God,
horny, hot, hunky-dory, immobile, immutable, impenetrable, impermeable, imperturbable, in
agreement, in equilibrium, incontestable, incontrovertible,
indisputable,
individual, indivisible, infrangible, intact, integral, intensive, invincible, inviolate, iron-hard, ironlike, irreducible, irrefutable, jam-packed,
jam-up, jammed, just, just dandy, keen, knot, lapideous, lasting, law-abiding, lawful, legal, legitimate, like-minded,
lithoid, lithoidal, logical, lone, lump, made of iron, marble, marblelike, marvy, mass, massive, material, mature, matured, mean, mighty, monadic, monistic, neat, nifty, nobby, node, nonporous, obdurate, of a piece, of one
accord, of one mind, okay,
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sound, spiffing, spiffy, stable, stalwart, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, stout, straight, strong, stunning, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sufficient, sure, surefire, sustained, swarming, swell, tangible, teeming, telling, thick, thick-growing, thickset, thorough, three-dimensional,
through-and-through, torpid, total, tough, true, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, unabbreviated, unadulterated, unalloyed, unaltered, unanalyzable, unanimous, unbreakable, unbroken, unchallenged, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncontested, uncontradicted, uncontroverted, uncut, undestroyed, undiminished, undivided, unexpurgated, unfading, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, uniform, unindebted, uninterrupted, unique, unitary, unmixed, unopposed, unrelieved, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaky, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unyielding, upright, upstanding, valid, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous, weighty, well-balanced,
well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded,
well-made, whole, with one
consent, with one voice, without nerves, wizard, worthy