resolution : Idioms & Phrases


high-resolution

  • adjective producing images that are sharp and finely detailed
    • high-resolution photography
    • a high-resolution lens
    • high-resolution television
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Joint resolution

  • noun a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the Chief Executive (or passed over the Chief Executive's veto)
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  • (Parliamentary Practice), a resolution adopted concurrently by the two branches of a legislative body. "By the constitution of the United States and the rules of the two houses, no absolute distinction is made between bills and joint resolutions." Barclay (Digest).
Webster 1913

low-resolution

  • adjective of computer output devices; producing images that are not sharply defined
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Resolution of a forcemotion

  • (Mech.), the separation of a single force or motion into two or more which have different directions, and, taken together, are an equivalent for the single one; the opposite of composition of a force.
Webster 1913

Resolution of a nebula

  • (Astron.), the exhibition of it to the eye by a telescope of such power as to show it to be composed of small stars.
Webster 1913