Noun

(en noun)

A strong will, determination.

The state of being resolute.

A statement of intent, a vow

The act of discerning detail.

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(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.

Noun

(en noun)

A meeting or gathering.

The convention was held in Geneva.

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, year=2012 , date=May 30 , author=Katherine Stewart , title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.}}

A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates

''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution

The convening of a formal meeting

A formal agreement, contract or pact

(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations

A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.

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In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40)      VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)

''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol

The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.