Crossword clues for solving
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solve \Solve\ (s[o^]lv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Solved (s[o^]lvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Solving.] [L. solvere, solutum; from a prefix so- expressing separation (cf. Sober) + luere to loosen; cf. OF. soldre, soudre. See Loose, and cf. Absolve.] To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.
True piety would effectually solve such scruples.
--South.
God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
--Tickell.
Syn: To explain; resolve; unfold; clear up.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of solve English)
WordNet
n. finding a solution to a problem [syn: resolution]
Usage examples of "solving".
Some systems are unbreakable in practice only, because the cryptanalyst can conceive of ways of solving them if he had enough text and enough time.
By the end of the century, cryptology had become important enough for most states to keep full-time cipher secretaries occupied in making up new keys, enciphering and deciphering messages, and solving intercepted dispatches.
Their solution consists in large measure of breaking down the cipher until the method for solving monoalphabetic substitutions can be applied.
Soro, appointed cipher secretary in 1506, enjoyed remarkable success in solving the ciphers of numerous principalities.
Phelippes, on solving it, immediately endorsed it with the gallows mark.
The cryptanalysts sometimes even got paid for not solving a cipher: if a key was stolen from an embassy, the codebreakers would get a kind of unemployment compensation because they had no opportunity to win their bonus.
He seems to have enjoyed some success in solving the Japanese ciphers, which appear to have been columnar transposition of the kana symbols.
Each agent had his own key, but Friedman had no trouble in solving them.
She began solving Serbo-Croatian codes, then some Bulgarian, then helped with others.
Funkaufklarungsdienst units, solving messages in systems whose basic solution had been worked out at headquarters.
They had reportedly tried to use women in teams for solving a widely used Allied air-ground system, called syko, but switched to male students when the women did not produce satisfactory results.
Torpadie so impressed the Swedish authorities by solving a nomenclator of 1632 for a historical study that they commissioned him to set up a cryptologic bureau called Room 100, Swedish cryptology got its real start with Yves Gylden.
One story credited one of these wizards with solving a Turkish code during the war in less than five months, though he himself could not speak Turkish and had had to call in experts in the language to translate the messages.
Aside from a few such generalized observations, it is almost impossible to say which group, much less which individual, deserves the major share of credit for solving the edition of the fleet cryptographic system then in force.
Op systems place higher priorities on problem solving than on objectives.