Resolution

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Resolution may refer to:

• Resolution (audio), a measure of digital audio quality
• Resolution (debate), the statement which is debated in policy debate
• Resolution (law), a written motion adopted by a deliberative body
• Resolution (logic), a rule of inference used for automated theorem proving
• Resolution (meter), the replacement of one longum with two brevia
• Resolution (music), the move of a note or chord from dissonance to consonance
• New Year's resolution, a commitment that an individual makes at New Year's Day
• Chiral resolution, a process in stereochemistry for the separation of racemic compounds into their enantiomers
• Resolution, a Douglas DC-6 aircraft, BCPA Flight 304, which crashed near San Francisco in 1953
• Resolution (beam engine), an early steam engine at Coalbrookdale

Measurement resolution

• Display resolution, the level of information on a display device, such as a monitor; how many pixels are to draw the screen
  • Graphic display resolutions, a list of particular display resolutions
• Temporal resolution, the sampling frequency of a digital audio device
• Optical resolution, the capability of an optical system to distinguish, find, or record details
• Angular resolution, the capability of an optical or other sensor to discern small objects
• Spectral resolution, the capability of an optical system to distinguish different frequencies
• Sensor resolution, the smallest change a sensor can detect in the quantity that it is measuring
• Resolution (electron density), the quality of an X-ray crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy data set
• Resolution (mass spectrometry) the ability to distinguish peaks in a mass spectrum
• Image resolution, a measure of the amount of detail in an image
• Printing resolution, the number of individual dots a printer can produce within a unit of distance (e.g., dots per inch)
• In number storage, the resolution is the reciprocal of the unit in the last place

Business or organization

• Resolution (association of family law practitioners), a not-for-profit membership association in England and Wales
• Corporate resolution, a legal document defining which individuals are authorized to act on behalf of a corporation
• Resolution plc, a defunct manager of in-force UK life funds acquired by Pearl Group in 2008
• Resolution Limited, a Guernsey-based investor in insurance companies
• Resolution Copper, a copper mining project near Superior, Arizona

Places

• Resolution Island (Nunavut), in the Arctic region of Canada
• Resolution Island, New Zealand, the largest (uninhabited) island in Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand
• Resolution, United States Virgin Islands

Vessels

• HMS Resolution, any of several British Royal Navy ships
• HMNZS Resolution (A14), Royal New Zealand Navy surveillance ship
• Resolution-class submarine, British Royal Navy
• The Resolution (ship), an American trading vessel whose crew were massacred in 1794
• TIV Resolution, the world's first turbine installation vessel

Mathematics

• Resolution (algebra), an exact sequence in homological algebra
• Resolution (logic), an inference rule for refutation-based theorem proving
• Resolution of singularities in algebraic geometry

Music

• Resolution (38 Special album), 1997
• Resolution (Lamb of God album), 2012
• Resolution (Andy Timmons album), 2006
• Resolution (BoDeans album), 2004
• Resolution (Hamiet Bluiett album), 1977
• Resolutions (album), an album by Dave Hause
• Resolution (Hidden in Plain View album), 2007
• Resolution, an album by The Happy End
• "Resolution" (song), a 2006 song by Nick Lachey from What's Left of Me
• "Resolution" (Matt Corby song), 2013
• "Resolution", a John Coltrane (1926–1967) song from A Love Supreme
• "Resolution" by Romantic Mode, the second opening theme for the anime After War Gundam X
• "Resolution", a poem by Bertolt Brecht
• "Resolution", a Mahavishnu Orchestra song from the album Birds of Fire
• "The Resolution", a Jack's Mannequin song from The Glass Passenger

Fiction

• "Resolutions" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1996 second series episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• Resolution (novel), a 2008 novel by Robert B. Parker, a Western, sequel to Appaloosa

Film

• Resolution (film), a 2013 horror movie directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead that stars Peter Cilella
• Resolved (film), a film about policy debate

See also

• Resolve (disambiguation)

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