Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a vexed question or difficult problem. 2. (n.) The state of being relaxed; relaxation. 3. (n.) The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination. 4. (n.) That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination. Specifically: A formal expression of the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly, adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public meeting. 5. (n.) The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance. 6. (n.) The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem. 7. (n.) A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like. 8. (n.) The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.

Multi-Version Concordance Resolution (1 Occurrence) Acts 20:3 And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia. (DBY YLT)