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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
resolution/rezəˈluːʃn/
noun
  • 1 the quality of being resolute.
  • 2 a firm decision.

    ■ a formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by a legislative body.

  • 3 the resolving of a problem or dispute.
  • 4 Music the passing of a discord into a concord during the course of changing harmony.
  • 5 Medicine the disappearance of a symptom or condition.
  • 6 the process of reducing or separating into components.
  • 7 the smallest interval measurable by a telescope or other scientific instrument.
  • 8 the degree of detail visible in a photographic or television image.



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