resolution

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 35.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A firm decision or an official decision.
2. noun A strong will; the state of being resolute.

   His stalwart resolution is perhaps admirable, perhaps foolish.

3. noun A statement of intent, a vow.

   By February, most New Year’s resolutions are forgotten.

4. noun The act of discerning detail.
5. noun The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).

   Printing at higher resolution will cause a reduction in performance.

6. noun The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.

   This monitor's maximum resolution is 1600 × 1200.

7. noun The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.

   name resolution

8. noun The act or process of resolving: solving.

   the resolution of an equation

Similar words

resoluteness resolving resolve firmness answer result declaration settlement resolving power solution

Often followed by

of to was and in is on that for

Word family

resolutions resolve resolved resolves resolving