Other Meanings
More generally, the solution set to an arbitrary collection E of relations (Ei) (i varying in some index set I) for a collection of unknowns, supposed to take values in respective spaces, is the set S of all solutions to the relations E, where a solution is a family of values such that substituting by in the collection E makes all relations "true".
(Instead of relations depending on unknowns, one should speak more correctly of predicates, the collection E is their logical conjunction, and the solution set is the inverse image of the boolean value true by the associated boolean-valued function.)
The above meaning is a special case of this one, if the set of polynomials fi if interpreted as the set of equations fi(x)=0.
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