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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RESOLUTION , a word used in the two See also:

main senses, separation and decision, of the verb " to resolve " (See also:Lat. resolvere, to loose, unfasten), to See also:separate anything into its constituent elements or component parts, hence, through the subsidiary meaning of to clear up doubts or difficulties, to See also:settle, determine. The See also:principal applications of the See also:term in its first sense are to the separation of a See also:body into its component parts by chemical See also:process, or, to the See also:eye, by the See also:lens of a See also:microscope or See also:telescope; similarly, in See also:mathematics, to the See also:analysis of a velocity, force, &c., into components. In the second sense, beyond the See also:general meaning of determination, firmness of See also:character, a " resolution " is specifically a decision of See also:opinion formally submitted to a legislative or other See also:assembly and adopted or rejected by votes.

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