<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.</li><li>the act of resolving or determining upon an action, course of action, method, procedure, etc.</li><li>a resolve; a decision or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.</li><li>the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose: She showed her resolution by not attending the meeting.</li><li>Synonyms: fortitude, strength, tenacity, perseverance, determination, resolve.</li><li>the act or process of resolving or separating something into constituent or elementary parts.</li><li>the resulting state.</li><li>Optics: the act, process, or capability of distinguishing between two separate but adjacent objects or sources of light or between two nearly equal wavelengths.</li><li>a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc.</li><li>Music: the progression of a voice part or of the harmony as a whole from a dissonance to a consonance; the tone or chord to which a dissonance is resolved.</li><li>reduction to a simpler form; conversion.</li><li>Medicine/Medical: the reduction or disappearance of a swelling or inflammation without suppuration.</li><li>the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dots per linear inch in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.</li></ul>