sol

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.

   “D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die.”

   “Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you.”

2. (countable, uncountable)In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.
3. (historical)An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.

   “This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker.”

   “Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence halfe penny of our money.”

   “It was the fate of the grenadier company, to which I now belonged, to lie at Rheims, where I found myſelf in the utmoſt want of every thing: My pay, which amounted to five ſols a day, far from ſupplying me with neceſſaries; being ſcarce ſufficient to procure a wretched ſubſiſtance, to keep ſoul and body together; […]”

4. (historical)A former Spanish-American silver coin.

   “The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour.”

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).

   “I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food.”

   “88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds / The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a ‘sol’”

   “On sol 46 (March 11, 2004 on Earth), Opportunity gathered data on a cluster of blueberries and confirmed the team's suspicions that this area of Mars once contained liquid water.”

7. (physical)A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
8. (obsolete)A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.

   “[F]or that they had nothing elſe to doe, […] haue coyned a thouſand idle queſtions, nice diſtinctions, Obs and Sols, […]”

   “Where Hinderſon, and th' other Maſſes / Were ſent to Cap Texts, and Put Caſes: / To paſs for deep, and Learned Scholars, / Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers:[…]”

9. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of solidarity.
10. (rare, uncountable)Or (gold), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.

    “4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol.”

    “8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh;”

    “ARMS. QUARTERLY, in the first grand Quarter Mars, three Lions passant-guardant in Pale, Sol; the Imperial Ensigns of England, impaled with the Royal Arms of Scotland, which are Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flower'd and counterflower'd with Fleurs-de-lis, Mars. The second Quarter is the Royal Arms of France, viz. Jupiter, three Fleurs-de-lis, Sol. The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.”

11. (obsolete, uncountable)Gold.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of statute of limitations.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of speed of light.
14. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of slice of life.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of standards of learning.
16. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of sleep onset latency.
17. Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma
18. (abbreviation, alt-of, in-plural, initialism)Initialism of stoppages of leave.

name

1. (poetic)The Sun, the star orbited by the Earth.
2. (Roman)The sun god; equivalent of the Greek Helios. Brother of Luna and Aurora.
3. (Norse)The sun goddess.
4. (nonce-word)A male given name

   “Sol (named after the solar eclipse on the day of his birth) was born in March 2015 with an undetected clot in his upper left arm.”

5. A diminutive of the male given name Solomon.

   ““Chock full o’ science,” said the radiant Captain, “as ever he was! Sol Gills, Sol Gills, what have you been up to, for this many a long day, my ould boy?””

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of shit out of luck.