Decision vs. Resolution
Decisionnoun
The act of deciding.
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A choice or judgement.
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(uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
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(chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
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(baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
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(boxing) To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout
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Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
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The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
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An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court.
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The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.
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a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration;
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the act of making up your mind about something;
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(boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred;
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the outcome of a game or contest;
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the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose;
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a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration
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the action or process of deciding something or of resolving a question
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the ability or tendency to make decisions quickly; decisiveness
Resolutionnoun
A strong will, determination.
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The state of being resolute.
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A statement of intent, a vow
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The act of discerning detail.
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(computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
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(computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
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(computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
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(math) The act or process of solving; solution.
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A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
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(sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
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(sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
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(music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
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(literature) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
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(medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
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The act, operation, or process of resolving.
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The state of being relaxed; relaxation.
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The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.
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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.
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The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.
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The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.
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A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.
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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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The act of distinguishing between two close but not identical objects, or, when taking a measurement, bbetween two close values of the property measured.
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a measure of the ability to distinguish between two close but not identical values of the property being measured; it is expressed as the difference in values of a property necessary to make such a distinction; as, a microscope with a resolution of one micron; a thermometer with a resolution of one-tenth of a degree. Also called resolving power.
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a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
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the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
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the trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose;
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finding a solution to a problem
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something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;
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analysis into clear-cut components
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(computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
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the subsidence of swelling or others signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
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(music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
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a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
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a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner;
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a firm decision to do or not to do something
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a formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by a legislative body or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote
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the quality of being determined or resolute
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the action of solving a problem or contentious matter
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the passing of a discord into a concord during the course of changing harmony
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the disappearance of a symptom or condition
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the process of reducing or separating something into constituent parts or components.
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the replacing of a single force or other vector quantity by two or more jointly equivalent to it.
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the smallest interval measurable by a telescope or other scientific instrument; the resolving power.
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the degree of detail visible in a photographic or television image
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the conversion of something abstract into another form
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the substitution of two short syllables for one long one.
