Resolution may refer to:

• Resolution (music), a technique in music theory.
• Resolution class submarines, the UK's first nuclear missile submarines.
• Several vessels of the Royal Navy named HMS Resolution.
• A New Year's resolution.

In optics, computing and electronics:

• Display resolution, the level of detail on a display device.
• Optical resolution, the capability of an optical system to distinguish, detect, and/or record details
• Angular resolution, the capability of an optical or other sensor to discern small objects.
• Sensor resolution, the precision of a quantitative sensor.
• Image resolution, the level of detail of an image.
• Temporal resolution, for example the sampling frequency of a digital audio device.
• The process of retrieving information from the Domain Name System.

In politics and law:

• Resolution (law), an action taken by a deliberative body.
• Resolution (policy debate), a statement that frames an organized debate.

In science:

• Injective resolutions, projective resolutions and exact resolutions, types of series in mathematics.
• Resolution (logic), a proof calculus for propositional logic and first-order logic.
• In chemistry, to separate a racemate into the pure enantiomers.
• The ability for chromatographic techniques to discern between chemical species.

In geography:

• Resolution Island (Nunavut), in the Arctic of Canada.
• Resolution Island, New Zealand.
• Resolution Island (Galápagos Islands), in the novel Brown on Resolution by C.S. Forester.

See also

• List of common resolutions

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