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dissolver|dɪˈzɒlvə(r)|
[f. dissolve + -er1.]
One who or that which dissolves.
1. One who or that which breaks up, disintegrates, destroys, puts an end to, etc.: see the verb.
1611Bible Dan. v. 12 Dissoluing of doubts [marg. of a dissoluer]. 1641Milton Prel. Episc. (1851) 82 These men were the dissolvers of Episcopacie. a1735Arbuthnot (J.), Fire, and the more subtle dissolver, putrefaction. 1883Sir M. Williams Relig. Th. in Ind. iii. 44 Rudra-Siva, the Dissolver and Reproducer.
2. A substance that dissolves another substance; a solvent: see dissolve 2.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋80 Such dissolvers, as are wont to be made of Aqua fortis and Regis. a1788Wesley Serm. lviii. Wks. 1811 IX. 114 It is the universal menstruum, the dissolver of all things under the Sun.
3. a. An apparatus for dissolving some substance. b. A contrivance for producing dissolving views: see dissolving ppl. a. b. c. Cinemat. and Television An apparatus for dissolving a picture; also attrib.
1880J. Lomas Alkali Trade 226 The top of the dissolver being covered with thin sheet iron. 1892Daily News 9 Feb. 3/5 Apropos of dissolving views, an automatic dissolver has been lately invented which will work in any single lantern. 1912F. H. Richardson Motion Picture Handbk. (ed. 2) 375 The lamps of a dissolver should each one be connected just as though the other one did not exist. Ibid. 377 To construct a home-made dissolver shutter. Ibid., Your dissolver lens must be matched. 1915Ibid. (ed. 3) 604 The upper dissolver lamp must be supplied with amperage equal to the projection machine arc. |