RESOLVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resolving mean? 

• RESOLVING (noun)
  The noun RESOLVING has 1 sense:

1. analysis into clear-cut components

  Familiarity information: RESOLVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESOLVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Analysis into clear-cut components

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

resolution; resolving

Hypernyms ("resolving" is a kind of...):

breakdown; partitioning (an analysis into mutually exclusive categories)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resolving"):

factoring; factorisation; factorization ((mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression)

diagonalisation; diagonalization (changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal))

Derivation:

resolve (make clearly visible)

 Context examples 

Elinor resolving to exert herself, though fearing the sound of her own voice, now said, Is Mrs. Ferrars at Longstaple?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

How perfectly I remember my resolving to look for you upstairs, and setting off to find my way to the East room, without having an idea whereabouts it was!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

By joining this natural lens with the resolving power of Hubble, scientists were able to see into the center of the dead galaxy.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She listened—the sound had ceased; and resolving not to lose a moment, she passed through and closed the door.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She closed with this offer, resolving to break with me entirely, and wrote the next day to tell me that we never were to meet again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Finally resolving these tiny magnetic features is central to what makes the Inouye Solar Telescope unique.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

NOTE: often denoted using a pick list from a controlled terminology such as: Recovered/resolved, recovering/ resolving, not recovered/not resolved, recovered /resolved with sequelae, fatal, or unknown. [SDTM Events class of observation]

(Adverse Event Outcome, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

While he was thus reasoning and resolving with himself, a sardral, or gentleman-usher, came from court, commanding my master to carry me immediately thither for the diversion of the queen and her ladies.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The research provides a "door-opening opportunity" to resolving inconsistencies in the narrative of the planet's early days.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

The act of receiving professional guidance in resolving personal conflicts and emotional problems.

(Counseling, NCI Thesaurus)