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sol

Pronunciation: /sɒl/

The English word “sol” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
  2. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.
  3. An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.
  4. A former Spanish-American silver coin.
  5. In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.
  6. A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
  7. A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
  8. A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.

Etymology

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

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