resolution

n

1. declaration, decree, judgment, opinion; expression, statement, proclamation; conclusion, finding, verdict, sentence, ruling.

2. determination, intent, intention, point, aim; resolve, decision, objective; plan, purpose, ambition, project, idea; aspiration, desire, nisus, desideratum; proposition, proposal, advance, suggestion, prospectus; contemplation, mind, will, thought, dream; mark, pursuit, end, end in view, object in mind, ultimate aim, target, butt, bull's-eye.

3. steadfastness, resoluteness, firmness, fortitude. See resolve(def. 9).

4. solution, answer, finding; outcome, upshot, end, point, issue, result, end result; explanation, explication, reason; unraveling, disentanglement, unscrambling, unriddling; sorting out, unspinning, untwisting, unweaving; decoding, decipherment, cracking, interpretation, breaking open.