The act, operation, or process of resolving.
The state of being relaxed; relaxation.
The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.
That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination. Specifically: A formal expression of the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly, adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public meeting.
The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.
The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.
A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.
The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.
The act of distinguishing between two close but not identical objects, or, when taking a measurement, bbetween two close values of the property measured.
a measure of the ability to distinguish between two close but not identical values of the property being measured; it is expressed as the difference in values of a property necessary to make such a distinction; as, a microscope with a resolution of one micron; a thermometer with a resolution of one-tenth of a degree. Also called resolving power.
The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; - used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product resulting from such absorption.
Release; deliverance; discharge.
The termination of a disease; resolution.
