resolution

 
Pronunciation: /rɛzəˈluːʃ(ə)n/

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

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin resolutio(n-), from resolvere 'loosen, release' (see resolve)