What's the difference between solvable and unsolvable?

Solvable


Definition:

  • (a.) Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.
  • (a.) Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations.
  • (a.) Able to pay one's debts; solvent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
  • (2) Although the purely engineering problems as well as the surgical ones appear solvable at this time, the remaining unsolved problems lie in two areas: 1) the bioengineering interfacing, i.e., the search for methods needed to connect an engineering (electronic) device to the neural auditory system in an efficient manner; and 2) clinical tests for the assessment of the functional state of the cochlear nerve.
  • (3) They prove that changes in solvability of hemoglobin are determined by the conformational reconstructions of the respiration protein as a result of formation of the complexes with internally erythrocytic metabolites.
  • (4) The further progress of the exactness of their technique seems to be solvable.
  • (5) Geophysical data on the carbon amounts in oil, gas and coal show that the problem is solvable, if we phase out global coal emissions within 20 years and prohibit emissions from unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands and oil shale.
  • (6) We examined the effects of methylphenidate on the task persistence of 21 boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), after they had been exposed to both solvable and insolvable problems.
  • (7) Life appears as something we wish could be controllable, solvable - but completion is denied: there's always a piece missing.
  • (8) Liberal senator warns against Abbott's 'simplistic' call for reformation in Islam Read more “We need to be very temperate and we need to be smart as a community,” Lewis told News Corp. “This problem is solvable.
  • (9) (3) Our shape task was solvable with motion cues from the 6 most relevant locations.
  • (10) To render them approximately solvable, we assumed mathematical continuity across the membrane and incorporated the Landis-Pappenheimer relationship.
  • (11) This study suggests that much of the problem may be solvable.
  • (12) The European energy commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, who took part in talks on Sunday night between Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz, said he believed the situation was "solvable" if the sides showed more flexibility.
  • (13) It is doing so unarmed, while being confronted by one of the biggest military powers in the world.” Barghouti also warned that Israeli actions – in particular around the flashpoint religious site the Haram al-Sharif known to Jews as the Temple Mount – threaten to “transform a solvable political conflict into a never-ending religious war that will only further undermine stability in a region already experiencing unprecedented turmoil.” Fifty-six-year old Barghouti – who was an important figure in both the first and second intifadas – was arrested by Israel in 2002 in the middle of the second intifada and convicted on five counts of murder two years later.
  • (14) Laake knows that there may be no happy ending for him, that the problem of East Germany's lost children "is probably not solvable".
  • (15) At the ceremony in Mexico on Wednesday, Gates said there were "legitimate issues, but solvable issues" around GM and lauded CIMMYT's role trying to sidestep concerns about monopolisation of the technology by the multinationals.
  • (16) A group of solvable proteins absent in the blood serum, amniotic fluid, fetal placenta and uterus mucosa independent of the phase of ovary development is revealed.
  • (17) Although these theories themselves yield exceedingly good comparison with experimental (Monte Carlo) data, they involve fairly advanced theoretical and mathematical techniques and do not appear to be readily solvable for other than very simple geometries.
  • (18) This is a solvable problem – if we start now.” In his weekly address on Saturday , Obama acknowledged criticism of the Shell decision, saying he shared concerns about Arctic drilling.
  • (19) College students of either androgynous or sex-typed orientation were randomly assigned to either an insoluble concept-formation task or a solvable one.
  • (20) The results indicated that both low perceivability and high solvability increase the likelihood of response delays specifically in the presence of anxiety-linked stimuli.

Unsolvable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Record linkage of the findings in heterozygotes for use later in life is an unsolved problem.
  • (2) Unsolved epidemics of acute respiratory disease dating to the 1950s were subsequently attributed to the newly described pathogens.
  • (3) The natural transmission mechanism(s) of the simian trypanosomiases in South Asia remains an unsolved problem.
  • (4) The role of steroid therapy in brain oedema following acute cerebral lesions is still unsolved.
  • (5) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
  • (6) A number of problems concerning both clinical and genetic or cytogenetic aspects of the fragile-X syndrome remain unsolved.
  • (7) Examination of possibility of AAT deficiency should be performed in every case, where the cause of liver disease is unsolved; this examination is especially indicated by the presence of typical PAS positive, diastase-resistant, AAT immunreactive globules in hepatocytes.
  • (8) The attacks had clear echoes of the unsolved assassination in January this year of one of their colleagues, particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi.
  • (9) The question, of whether long-term treatment of essential hypertension with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is capable of modifying glucose tolerance or insulin sensitivity in Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes, is still unsolved.
  • (10) The problem of the quantification of vertigo is still unsolved.
  • (11) Although the molecular nature of several blood group antigens was established in 1950-1980, the identification and characteristics of the Rh-antigens long remained unsolved.
  • (12) Theoretical prediction of the structure, stability and activity of proteins, an important unsolved problem in molecular biology, would be of use for guiding site-directed mutagenesis and other protein-engineering techniques.
  • (13) Although implants have not yet been used for this purpose in children, there are no unsolvable technological problems.
  • (14) Coronary heart disease is now the leading cause of death in many countries and is the major unsolved problem in the treatment of hypertension.
  • (15) In January 1977 an unsolved outbreak of infection at St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington, D.C.) that occurred in 1965 was linked with Legionnaires' disease.
  • (16) Although the purely engineering problems as well as the surgical ones appear solvable at this time, the remaining unsolved problems lie in two areas: 1) the bioengineering interfacing, i.e., the search for methods needed to connect an engineering (electronic) device to the neural auditory system in an efficient manner; and 2) clinical tests for the assessment of the functional state of the cochlear nerve.
  • (17) The problem of its biological significance and the question whether emperipolesis is the result of invasion of engulfment must remain unsolved.
  • (18) These circulatory effects of O3 may be significant from the viewpoint of health effects, although its mechanisms remain unsolved.
  • (19) Its function, which has long been an unsolved puzzle, is likely to be related to the unique ability of PSII to oxidize water.
  • (20) So the problem of whether testosterone or androstanolone or another natural steroid is the most effective myotrophic hormone in rat skeletal muscle remains unsolved.