resolution

1. Formal authorization or expression of an action, decision, intention, opinion, transaction, etc.

2. Proposition put before a meeting of stockholders (shareholders) or the directors of a firm for discussion, approval or adoption. Resolutions are of four common types: (1) Elective (see elective resolution), (2) Extraordinary (see extraordinary resolution), (3) Ordinary (see ordinary resolution), and (4) Special (see special resolution).

3. Appropriate disposition of a complaint or protest through prescribed or standard procedures.

4. Sharpness or clarity of a monitor, printer, or scanner image, expressed in an appropriate unit: pixels per inch (PPI) for monitors, dots per inch (DPI) for printers, and samples per inch (SPI) for scanners. For photographic systems, it is expressed as lines per millimeter (LPM).