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Resolution   /rˌɛzəlˈuʃən/   Listen
Resolution

noun
1.
A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.  Synonyms: declaration, resolve.
2.
The ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together.  Synonym: resolving power.
3.
The trait of being resolute.  Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve.  "It was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"
4.
Finding a solution to a problem.  Synonym: solving.
5.
Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making.  Synonyms: closure, settlement.  "They never did achieve a final resolution of their differences" , "He needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
6.
Analysis into clear-cut components.  Synonym: resolving.
7.
(computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture.
8.
The subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung).
9.
(music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord.
10.
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem.  Synonyms: answer, result, solution, solvent.  "The answers were in the back of the book" , "He computed the result to four decimal places"
11.
A decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner.



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"Resolution" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pray that they may be nerved for the fight by the power of God's right arm. Pray for all the irresolute. "A sound of battle is in the land, . . . the Lord hath opened His armoury." "Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood." Pray for resolution and the courage of conviction. It ...
— Things as They Are - Mission Work in Southern India • Amy Wilson-Carmichael
... Would he have forgotten that young girl, or had he nursed and nourished his wicked fancy in the house of grief and silence? Would he ask where the baby was? Would he speak a kind word to her? But alongside her dread there was guttering within her the undying resolution not to 'let him go from her, if it were ever ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the spark of an ideal utterly at variance with the whole tenor of the teaching of poor Diane's last embittered days—the ideal of womanhood which had been Michael's. And the impulse which had bade her leave Storran so abruptly was born of the one-time resolution she had made to become the sort of woman Michael would ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... there was yet a much stronger motive for the freedom I took in my representation of things. I had not yet been a year in this country before I contracted such a love and veneration for the inhabitants, that I entered on a firm resolution never to return to humankind, but to pass the rest of my life among these admirable Houyhnhnms, in the contemplation and practice of every virtue, where I could have no example or incitement to vice. But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual ...
— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift
... side of the Athenian Acropolis, was composed of persons who had held the office of archon, and was the supreme tribunal in all capital cases. It exercised, also, a general superintendence over education, morals, and religion; and it could suspend a resolution of the public assembly, which it deemed foolish or unjust, until it had undergone a reconsideration. It was this court that condemned the philosopher Socrates to death; and before this same venerable tribunal the apostle ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson


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