resolution

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A firm decision to do or not do something.

   Her New Year's resolution was to exercise every morning.

2. 2
   noun

   The amount of detail in an image, often measured in pixels.

   This monitor's maximum resolution is 1600 by 1200.

3. 3
   noun

   Strong determination and firmness of purpose.

   She faced the challenge with great resolution.

Recorded since 1412, as Middle English resolucioun (“dissolution”), either from Anglo-Norman resolucion or directly from Latin resolūtiō (“a loosening, solution”), from resolvō (“to loosen”), itself from the intensive prefix re- + solvō (“to loosen”).

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