Friday 30th December 2016
Resolution - /rɛzəˈluːʃ(ə)n/
Noun
1) A firm decision to do or not to do something.
1.1) A formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by
a legislative body or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote.
2) [mass noun] The quality of being determined or resolute.
3) [mass noun] The action of solving a problem or contentious matter.
3.1) Music The passing of a discord into a concord during the course of
changing harmony.
3.2) Medicine The disappearance of a symptom or condition.
4) Chemistry
[mass noun] The process of reducing or separating something into
constituent parts or components.
4.1) Physics The replacing of a single force or other vector quantity by
two or more jointly equivalent to it.
5) The
smallest interval measurable by a telescope or other scientific instrument; the
resolving power.
5.1) [mass noun] The degree of detail visible in a photographic or television
image.
Example sentences
Noun
‘A New Year's resolution’
‘The conference passed two resolutions’
‘He handled the last British actions
of the war with resolution’
‘The peaceful resolution of all disputes’
‘Tension is released by the resolution from the dominant to the
tonic chord’
‘Complete remission was defined as resolution of clinical evidence of disease’
‘Each resolution
process was examined and classified into one of four types.’
‘The resolution
of fluorescence emission spectra into Gaussian components is shown in Figs.3-6.’
‘To measure this region, both the instrument resolution and photon statistics need
to be improved.’
‘A high-resolution monitor’
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin resolutio(n-),
from resolvere loosen, release (see resolve).
Thanks to: www.oxforddictionaries.com
