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Definition of Resolution
Resolution

The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a vexed question or difficult problem.

The state of being relaxed; relaxation.

The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.

That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination. Specifically: A formal expression of the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly, adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public meeting.

The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.

The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.

A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.

The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.

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Resolution Quotations

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau

Resolution Translations

resolution in Dutch is resolutie, motie
resolution in Italian is dissoluzione, deliberazione


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