Grit vs Resolution - What's the difference?
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Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
Inedible particles in food.
Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
(geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, to a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g. grindstone grit .
To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth .
To cover with grit .
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
* Goldsmith
(usually in plural) husked]] but unground [[oat, oats
(usually in plural) coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge
A strong will, determination.
The state of being resolute.
A statement of intent, a vow
The act of discerning detail.
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, title= (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.
(math) The act or process of solving; solution.
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.
As nouns the difference between grit and resolution
is that grit is collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking while resolution is a strong will, determination.As a verb grit
is to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth.As an adjective Grit
is of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.grit
English
Etymology 1
With early modern vowel shortening, from (etyl) grete, griet, from (etyl) ‘lump’).Noun
(-)- The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
- It tastes like grit from nutshells in these cookies.
- That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
- I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
Derived terms
* *See also
* debris * mortar and pestle * swarfVerb
- We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
- He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
- The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
(etyl) gryt ‘bran, chaff’, from (etyl) grytt, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* girt * trigresolution
English
Noun
(en noun)Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
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.}}
- name resolution
- the resolution of an equation
