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noun
1.
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.
2.
a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.
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the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.
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the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose.
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EXPANDthe act or process of resolving or separating into constituent or elementary parts.
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the resulting state.
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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.
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a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc.
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reduction to a simpler form; conversion.
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Medicine/Medical. the reduction or disappearance of a swelling or inflammation without suppuration.
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COLLAPSEthe 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.
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Word Origin & History
resolution
early 15c., "a breaking into parts," from L. resolutionem (nom. resolutio) "process of reducing things into simpler forms," from pp. stem of resolvere "loosen" (see resolve). Originally sense of "solving" (as of mathematical problems) first recorded 1540s, that of "holding
EXPANDfirmly" (in resolute) 1530s, and that of "decision or expression of a meeting" is from c.1600.
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resolution res·o·lu·tion (rěz'ə-l&oomacr;'shən)
n.
The subsiding or termination of an abnormal condition, such as a fever or an inflammation.
The act or process of separating or reducing something into its constituent parts.
The fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image, as on a video display terminal.
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