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Synonyms
res·o·lu·tion (rĕźə-lōṓshən)

noun 

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