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 or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote:the conference passed two resolutions

• 2 [mass noun] the quality of being determined or resolute:he handled the last British actions of the war with resolution

• 3 [mass noun] the action of solving a problem or contentious matter:the peaceful resolution of all disputes [count noun]:a successful resolution to the problem
• Music the passing of a discord into a concord during the course of changing harmony: tension is released by the resolution from the dominant to the tonic chord
• Medicine the disappearance of a symptom or condition: complete remission was defined as resolution of clinical evidence of disease

• 4 [mass noun] chiefly Chemistry the process of reducing or separating something into constituent parts or components.
• Physics the replacing of a single force or other vector quantity by two or more jointly equivalent to it.

• 5the smallest interval measurable by a telescope or other scientific instrument; the resolving power.
• [mass noun] the degree of detail visible in a photographic or television image:a high-resolution monitor