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Resolution:
res·o·lu·tion Pronunciation Key (rz-lshn)
n.
The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.
A resolving to do something.
A course of action determined or decided on.
A formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion put before or
adopted by an assembly such as the U.S. Congress.
Physics & Chemistry. The act or process of separating or reducing
something into its constituent parts: the prismatic resolution of sunlight
into its spectral colors.
The fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image, as on a
video display terminal.
Medicine. The subsiding or termination of an abnormal condition, such
as a fever or an inflammation.
Law. A court decision.
An explanation, as of a problem or puzzle; a solution.
The part of a literary work in which the complications of the plot are
resolved or simplified.
Music.
The progression of a dissonant tone or chord to a consonant tone or chord.
The tone or chord to which such a progression is made.
The substitution of one metrical unit for another, especially the substitution
of two short syllables for one long syllable in quantitative verse.
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