resolution

res•o•lu•tion

n.

1. the state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.
2. a resolving to do something.
3. a course of action determined or decided on.
4. formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion
   put before or adopted by an assembly such as the u.s. congress.
5. physics & chemistry: the act or process of separating
   or reducing something into its constituent parts.
6. the fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image,
   as on a video display terminal.
7. medicine: the subsiding or termination of an abnormal
   condition, such as a fever or an inflammation.
8. law: a court decision.
   a. an explanation, as of a problem or puzzle; a solution.
   b. The part of a literary work in which the complications
   of the plot are resolved or simplified.
9. music:
   a. the progression of a dissonant tone or chord
   to a consonant tone or chord.
   b. the tone or chord to which such a progression is made.