Solution vs. Workaround — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Solution and Workaround
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Solution
A method or process of dealing with a problem
Sought a solution to falling enrollments.
Workaround
A workaround is a bypass of a recognized problem or limitation in a system or policy. A workaround is typically a temporary fix that implies that a genuine solution to the problem is needed.
Solution
The answer to a problem or the explanation for something
The solution to the mystery.
Workaround
A method or process of dealing with a problem.
Solution
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances, which may be solids, liquids, gases, or a combination of these.
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Workaround
A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
Solution
The process of forming such a mixture.
Workaround
(computing) A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
Solution
The state of being dissolved
Nitrogen that is in solution in the ocean.
Workaround
(project management) An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
Solution
(Archaic) The act of separating or breaking up; dissolution.
Solution
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
Solution
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
Solution
An answer to a problem.
Solution
(marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
Solution
Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
Solution
The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid; dissolution.
Solution
The crisis of a disease.
Solution
To treat with a solution.
Solution
The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity.
Solution
The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; - used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
Solution
The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
It is unquestionably an enterprise of more promise to assail the nations in their hour of faintness and solution, than at a time when magnificent and seductive systems of worship were at their height of energy and splendor.
Solution
The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product resulting from such absorption.
Solution
Release; deliverance; discharge.
Solution
The termination of a disease; resolution.
Solution
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution;
He used a solution of peroxide and water
Solution
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
They were trying to find a peaceful solution
The answers were in the back of the book
He computed the result to four decimal places
Solution
A method for solving a problem;
The easy solution is to look it up in the handbook
Solution
The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
Solution
The successful action of solving a problem;
The solution took three hours
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