"resolution" : a firm decision to do or not to do something: the quality of being determined or resolute. Courage. [• in MUSIC: the passing of discord into concord during the course of changing harmony, • in MEDICINE: the disappearance of inflammation or any other symptom or condition, • in CHEMISTRY: the process of reducing or separating something into its components, • in PHYSICS: the process of replacing a single force by two or more equivalent to it; the conversion of something abstract into another form, • in PROSODY: the substitution of two short syllables for one long one, •The smallest interval measurable by scientific instruments; the resolving power. From Latin resolvere: to loosen. Release.