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单词 resolution
释义

resolution

/rɛzəˈluːʃ(ə)n /
noun
1A firm decision to do or not to do something: she kept her resolution not to see Anne any more a New Year’s resolution...
  • I was told that this - my life right now - was prime time for resolutions, that the decisions I made now would determine every possible outcome of my future.
  • Today those resolutions, though, still stand.
  • However, here are suggestions for resolutions for loved ones in my life.

Synonyms

intention, resolve, decision, intent, aim, aspiration, design, purpose, object, plan;
commitment, pledge, promise, undertaking
1.1A formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by a legislative body or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote: the conference passed two resolutions...
  • Last night, the Senate passed, by voice vote, a resolution issuing a formal apology for failing to pass federal anti-lynching laws.
  • Unlike ordinary resolutions which are decided after taking account the proxy vote and show of hands at the meeting, all 7 resolutions were voted on by a poll.
  • When the board next meets on January 4, members will vote on a formal resolution to ban smoking in public.

Synonyms

motion, proposal, proposition, plan;
ruling, verdict, judgement, finding, adjudication, decision, declaration, decree;
North American resolve;
Law determination
2 [mass noun] The quality of being determined or resolute: he handled the last British actions of the war with resolution...
  • The victory will depend on courage, resolution, and a determination to defend what we value - leaders are right to remind us of this.
  • The world is a better place for the removal of his influence, of that I'm certain, but I feel it's a time for grim determination and resolution rather than cheering.
  • However, on the day, they showed such determination and resolution that nothing could stand between them and victory.

Synonyms

determination, purpose, purposefulness, resolve, resoluteness, single-mindedness, strength of will, strength of character, will power, firmness, firmness of purpose, fixity of purpose, intentness, decision, decidedness;
steadfastness, staunchness, manfulness, perseverance, persistence, indefatigability, tenacity, tenaciousness, staying power, strong-mindedness, backbone, dedication, commitment, constancy, the bulldog spirit, pertinacity, pertinaciousness;
stubbornness, doggedness, obstinacy, obdurateness, obduracy, inflexibility;
spiritedness, braveness, bravery, boldness, courage, pluck, courageousness, pluckiness, stout-heartedness;
German Sitzfleisch
informal guts, spunk, grit, stickability
North American informal stick-to-it-iveness
archaic intension
rare perseveration
3 [mass noun] The action of solving a problem or contentious matter: the peaceful resolution of all disputes [count noun]: a successful resolution to the problem...
  • The educator that violently hits his students in order to get them to conform or behave to his liking can surely not lay any claim to teaching of peaceful dispute resolution.
  • But what we want to see is not the use of force but the peaceful resolution of this matter, and that's in the hands of the Miami relatives.
  • The UN has never pretended to have a monopoly on the peaceful resolution of disputes.

Synonyms

solution to, answer to, end to, explanation to;
resolving, settlement, settling, solving, sorting out, working out, rectification, unravelling, disentanglement, clarification, conclusion, ending
informal cracking
3.1 Music The passing of a discord into a concord during the course of changing harmony: tension is released by the resolution from the dominant to the tonic chord...
  • Mindlessly memorizing from the beginning of a phrase or section without analytical awareness of the cadence yields a lack of harmonic direction and resolution.
  • Traditionally, a musical climax is reached through the emotionally loaded swell of dynamics or harmonic resolution.
  • The return of the minor mode of the first aria at the conclusion provides dramatic resolution to the work where the poet's deceived heart is inflected with irony.
3.2 Medicine The disappearance of a symptom or condition: complete remission was defined as resolution of clinical evidence of disease...
  • Treatment includes analgesics and physical therapy, with resolution of symptoms usually occurring in three to four months.
  • Improvement was defined as partial or complete resolution of clinical or subclinical symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy.
  • An indeterminate outcome was defined as resolution of signs and symptoms of infection with a need for continued antimicrobial suppression.
4 [mass noun] chiefly Chemistry The process of reducing or separating something into constituent parts or components.The acetylcholine binding site at atomic resolution has five aromatic amino acids....
  • However, as these QTL appear to be tightly linked in coupling phase, the combined intercrosses do not provide sufficient resolution to separate the effects.
  • This improved separation efficiency gives sharper peaks that give better resolution, or faster separations, compared with conventional HPLC separations.
4.1 Physics The replacing of a single force or other vector quantity by two or more jointly equivalent to it.The resolution of fluorescence emission spectra into Gaussian components is shown in Figs.3-6....
  • Bunsen discussed his work on this problem with Kirchhoff, who pointed the way to a method based on the prismatic resolution of the colors of flames into their separate parts.
  • An optimum radius of the curvature ensuring the best spectral resolution was determined for a nonsymmetric diffractor scheme.
5The smallest interval measurable by a telescope or other scientific instrument; the resolving power.The new altitude would multiply the resolution of the measurements that Cassini's instruments could make at Enceladus by a factor of nearly 6....
  • To measure this region, both the instrument resolution and photon statistics need to be improved.
  • The effect is due to the limitation of the instrumental resolution regarding the measurement of hydration water large-scale motions.
5.1 [mass noun] The degree of detail visible in a photographic or television image: a high-resolution monitor...
  • The virions on the cell surfaces were imaged at high resolution and considerable detail of the arrangement of protein assemblies on their surfaces was evident.
  • It's also important to point out that there is a definite need for high resolution (highly detailed) graphics and graphic images.
  • Depending on your screen resolution, this image is about a third the size of the real thing, which is 700 mm long by 400 mm wide.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin resolutio(n-), from resolvere 'loosen, release' (see resolve).

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