Definitions for solidus

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solidus sol·i·dus

Spelling: [sol-i-duh s]

IPA: /ˈsɒl ɪ dəs/

Solidus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in solidus (dilossu).

Definitions for solidus

noun

1. a gold coin of ancient Rome, introduced by Constantine and continued in the Byzantine Empire; bezant.
2. (in medieval Europe) a money of account equal to 12 denarii. Compare sol2 .
3. virgule.
4. (on a graph of temperature versus composition) the curve connecting the temperatures at which a solid solution is in equilibrium with its vapor and with the liquid solution, and therefore connecting melting temperatures of solid solutions.

Origin of solidus

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin solidus (nummus) a solid (coin), a gold (coin)

Examples for solidus

The asterisk is used to indicate illegible letters, and the solidus (/) erasures.

Name from solidus and ago, to join, or make whole, in allusion to reputed vulnerary qualities.

There were 12 denarii to the solidus and 20 soldi to the pound of silver.

Solidipes is from solidus, solid; pes, foot; and is so called because the stem of the plant is solid.

In this article the solidus or slant stroke is used for the usual fractional sign of division.

He shall not have a solidus of my property if he does not give up the woman who is a thorn in the Queen's flesh.

The solidus occurs (theoretically or in accompt) in both gold and silver.

These curves are also called the "liquidus" and the "solidus" curve respectively.

The price of one solidus for thirty modii is48 almost exorbitant; grain cost exactly one half this at the time of Theodoric.

The form scanomodu on the solidus need not be taken into account.