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resolution
[ rez-uh-loo-shuhn ]
noun
- a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- the act of resolving or determining upon an action, course of action, method, procedure, etc.
- a resolve; a decision or determination:
to make a firm resolution to do something.
Her resolution to clear her parents' name allowed her no other focus in life.
She showed her resolution by not attending the meeting.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- the act or process of resolving or separating something into constituent or elementary parts.
- the resulting state.
- Optics. the act, process, or capability of distinguishing between two separate but adjacent objects or sources of light or between two nearly equal wavelengths. Compare resolving power.
- a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc.
- Music.
- the progression of a voice part or of the harmony as a whole from a dissonance to a consonance.
- the tone or chord to which a dissonance is resolved.
- reduction to a simpler form; conversion.
- Medicine/Medical. the reduction or disappearance of a swelling or inflammation without suppuration.
- the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dots per linear inch in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.
resolution
/ ˌɛəˈːʃə /
noun
- the act or an instance of resolving
- the condition or quality of being resolute; firmness or determination
- something resolved or determined; decision
- a formal expression of opinion by a meeting, esp one agreed by a vote
- a judicial decision on some matter; verdict; judgment
- the act or process of separating something into its constituent parts or elements
- med
- return from a pathological to a normal condition
- subsidence of the symptoms of a disease, esp the disappearance of inflammation without the formation of pus
- music the process in harmony whereby a dissonant note or chord is followed by a consonant one
- the ability of a television or film image to reproduce fine detail
- physics another word for resolving power
Derived Forms
- ˌˈܳپDzԱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDzr··tDz noun
- r··tDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of resolution1
Example Sentences
Local government minister Jim McMahon, who was due to attend the Saturday meeting with Rayner, said they would "press all parties involved to get around the table and come to a resolution".
Each grid square on the map has a resolution of a third of a mile in length, which is a substantial improvement from Bedmap2, he noted.
On Wednesday, in a rare rebuke of the president, the Senate passed a resolution Wednesday designed to thwart the imposition of tariffs on Canada.
At one point Washington voted with Moscow against a UN resolution that identified Russia as the "aggressor" in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Mr Kasab told workers on the picket line: "This remains not just a dispute that is just morally and principally right but remains a dispute that has a resolution, and you can absolutely win."
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