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Conflict vs Resolution - What's the difference?

conflict | resolution |

As nouns the difference between conflict and resolution

is that conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals while resolution is resolution.

As a verb conflict

is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

conflict

Noun

(en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

    References

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    resolution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong will, determination.
  • The state of being resolute.
  • A statement of intent, a vow
  • The act of discerning detail.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution , resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
  • (computing) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
  • (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
  • (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
  • name resolution
  • (math) The act or process of solving; solution.
  • the resolution of an equation
  • A formal statement adopted by an assembly.
  • (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
  • (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
  • (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
  • The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * resolutionist * New Year's resolution

    See also

    * polygon resolution * texture resolution