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- English Word Resolution Definition 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.
- English Word Resolution Definition The state of being relaxed; relaxation.
- English Word Resolution Definition The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.
- English Word Resolution Definition 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.
- English Word Resolution Definition The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.
- English Word Resolution Definition The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.
- English Word Resolution Definition A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.
- English Word Resolution Definition The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.
- English Word Resolutioner Definition One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century.
- English Word Resolutionist Definition One who makes a resolution.
- English Word Resolutive Definition Serving to dissolve or relax.
- English Word Resolutory Definition Resolutive.
- English Word Resolvability Definition The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.
- English Word Resolvable Definition Admitting of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.
- English Word Resolvableness Definition The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.
- English Word Resolve Definition To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
- English Word Resolve Definition To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
- English Word Resolve Definition To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- English Word Resolve Definition To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
- English Word Resolve Definition To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
- English Word Resolve Definition To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
- English Word Resolve Definition To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
- English Word Resolve Definition To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
- English Word Resolve Definition To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
- English Word Resolve Definition To relax; to lay at ease.
- English Word Resolve Definition To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
- English Word Resolve Definition To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
- English Word Resolve Definition To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
- English Word Resolve Definition To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
- English Word Resolve Definition The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.