Resolution vs Overcome - What's the difference?
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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.
To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
:to overcome enemies in battle
*Spenser
*:This wretched woman overcome / Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:
*:By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.
(obsolete) To win (a battle).
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*:Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille
To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
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To come or pass over; to spread over.
*Shakespeare
*:And overcome us like a summer's cloud.
To overflow; to surcharge.
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As a noun resolution
is resolution.As a verb overcome is
to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.resolution
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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
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* resolutionist * New Year's resolutionSee also
* polygon resolution * texture resolutionovercome
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Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}
