elegant solution

collocation in English

meaningsofelegantandsolution

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elegant
adjective
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/ˈel.ɪ.ɡənt/us
/ˈel.ə.ɡənt/
graceful and attractive in appearance ...
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solution
noun
uk
/səˈluː.ʃən/us
/səˈluː.ʃən/
the answer to ...
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(Definition ofelegantandsolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I saw that she was proud of herself for coming up with such anelegantsolutionto her intimidating problem.
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With respect to the problem of invisibility, the crystal metaphor offers anelegantsolution.
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The authors suggest anelegantsolutionthat requires few modifications to the current theory.
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While this was a far lesselegantsolution, it was much simpler to implement.
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This turned out to be distinctly more complex than ourelegantsolutionusing type classes.
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Anelegantsolutionwas suggested by the eighteenth-century cultivation of the essay.
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Apart from not being anelegantsolution, this can generate false matches, since semantic disambiguating devices such as s-selection and thematic grids are not available.
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The chosen formulation uses parameters to handle free names, thus giving anelegantsolutionto renaming problems.
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Is this not rather anelegantsolutionto our problems?
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Thatelegantsolutionis to boost the basic state pension in ways that would provide more incentives to save, and fewer disincentives to do so.
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His solution to the problem of commonhold was described, in that wonderful and admiring phrase used so often by civil servants, as anelegantsolution.
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There is thus a downside to everyelegantsolutionthat heats as it cools as it lights and as it powers efficiently.
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Theelegantsolution, however, can work only if we get past a very inelegant and almost intractable problem.
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I believe that they provide a neat andelegantsolutionin principle.
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This is a veryelegantsolution.
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Maybe he posed the question as a challenge to his peers, or perhaps he hoped that the responses would yield a moreelegantsolution.
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A moreelegantsolution, when possible, is phono-semantic matching, which attempts to have closer semantics as well as the proper sound.
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This simple andelegantsolutionwas only a stopgap: it did not allow inverted flight for any length of time.
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In this piece he praised the system as anelegantsolution.
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