A Blog Town: January 2020

Resolution(s) may refer to:

Common meanings

Resolution (audio), a measure of digital audio quality
Resolution (electron density), the quality of an X-ray crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy data set
Angular resolution or spatial resolution, the capability of an optical or other sensor to discern small objects
Depositional resolution, the age difference of fossils contained in one stratum
Display resolution, the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed on a display device
- Graphic display resolutions, a list of particular display resolutions
Image resolution, a measure of the amount of detail in an image
Optical resolution, the capability of an optical system to distinguish, find, or record details
Printing resolution, the number of individual dots a printer can produce within a unit of distance (e.g., dots per inch)
Sensor resolution, the smallest change a sensor can detect in the quantity that it is measuring
Spectral resolution, the capability of an optical system to distinguish different frequencies
Resolution of a spectrometer, the ability to distinguish two close-lying energies (or wavelengths, or frequencies, or masses)
Resolution (chromatography), the separation of peaks in a chromatogram
Resolution (mass spectrometry), the ability to distinguish peaks in a mass spectrum
Temporal resolution, the sampling frequency of a digital audio device
In number storage, the resolution is the reciprocal of the unit in the last place

Resolution (beam engine), an early steam engine at Coalbrookdale
Chiral resolution, a process in stereochemistry for the separation of racemic compounds into their enantiomers

"Resolutions" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1996 second season episode of Star Trek: Voyager
Resolution (film), a 2012 horror movie
"Resolution" (Doctor Who), a special episode of Doctor Who

Resolution (meter), the replacement of one longum with two brevia
"Resolution", a poem by Bertolt Brecht
Resolutions (short story), a 1911 short story by Franz Kafka
Resolution (novel), a 2008 novel by Robert B. Parker, a Western, sequel to Appaloosa
Resolution Island (disambiguation), setting for Brown on Resolution, a 1929 novel by C. S. Forester, and the 1935 film adaptation

"Resolution" (Matt Corby song), 2013
"Resolution" (Nick Lachey song), a 2006 song by Nick Lachey from What's Left of Me
"Resolution", a John Coltrane (1926–1967) song from A Love Supreme
"The Resolution", a 2008 Jack's Mannequin song from The Glass Passenger
"Resolution", a Mahavishnu Orchestra song from the album Birds of Fire
"Resolution", by Romantic Mode, the second opening theme for the anime After War Gundam X
"Resolution", by Haruka Tomatsu, the first opening theme for the anime Sword Art Online: Alicization War of Underworld

Corporate resolution, a legal document defining which individuals are authorized to act on behalf of a corporation
Resolution (talent agency), a talent agency in Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville
Resolution Copper, a copper mining project near Superior, Arizona
Resolution Limited, a Guernsey-based investor in insurance companies
Resolution plc, a defunct manager of in-force UK life funds acquired by Pearl Group in 2008

Resolution, United States Virgin Islands
Resolution Island (Nunavut), in the Arctic region of Canada
Resolution Island, New Zealand, the largest (uninhabited) island in Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand
Fort Resolution, a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada

Resolution, a Douglas DC-6 aircraft, BCPA Flight 304, which crashed near San Francisco in 1953
Resolution (1793 ship), an American trading vessel whose crew were massacred in 1794
HMNZS Resolution (A14), Royal New Zealand Navy surveillance ship
HMS Resolution, any of several British Royal Navy ships
TIV Resolution, the world's first turbine installation vessel
Resolution-class submarine, British Royal Navy
Resolution (1802 ship), a brig built in Spain and launched in 1802