final solution
See also: Final Solution
English
Noun
final solution (plural final solutions)
- (historical) The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see final, solution.
- 1911, Gilbert N. Lewis and Arthur Edgar, The Equilibrium between nitric acid, nitrous acid and nitric oxide, in The Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 33, page 297:
- Each mol of nitric acid gives three mol of nitrous acid which is therefore present in the final solution to the amount of 0.048 mol per liter.
- 2004, J. Stevens and A. Blackstone, The Final Solution to Property Tax
- (Can we date this quote?), Bernard D. den Ouden, Language and Creativity: an interdisciplinary essay in Chomskyan humanism →ISBN, page 8:
- Thus to argue that there is no final solution to this problem would be a disguised form of pretentious finality, [...]
- 1911, Gilbert N. Lewis and Arthur Edgar, The Equilibrium between nitric acid, nitrous acid and nitric oxide, in The Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 33, page 297:
Translations
planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews
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