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).
The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
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Recorded since 1412, as Middle English resolucioun ("a breaking into part"), either from Anglo-Norman resolucion or directly from Latin resolūtiō ("a loosening, solution"), from resolvō, itself from the intensive prefix re- + solvō.
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