resolution

noun

• 1a firm decision to do or not to do something:she kept her resolution not to see Anne any more a New Year’s resolution
• a formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by a legislative body, committee, or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote:the conference passed two resolutions
• the quality of being determined or resolute:he handled the last French actions of the war with resolution

• 2the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter:the peaceful resolution of all disputes a successful resolution to the problem
• Music the passing of a discord into a concord during the course of changing harmony.
• Medicine the disappearance of inflammation, or of any other symptom or condition.

• 3chiefly Chemistry the process of reducing or separating something into its components.
• Physics the replacing of a single force or other vector quantity by two or more jointly equivalent to it.
• the conversion of something abstract into another form.
• Prosody the substitution of two short syllables for one long one.

• 4the smallest interval measurable by a scientific (especially optical) instrument; the resolving power.
• the degree of detail visible in a photographic or television image.