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RESOLVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Analysis into clear-cut components
Synonyms:
resolution; resolving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb resolve
Context examples:
Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach and then close with him in mortal combat.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
After evaluating and resolving structural irregularities in the initial model, it may be further refined using energy minimization and other procedures.
(Homology Modeling, NCI Thesaurus)
This process may be involved in lengthening telomeres and in resolving breaks induced by radiation, mutagenic chemicals and collapsed replication forks.
(Mitotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)
Half resolving never to return, she went home, and worked off her irritation by stitching pinafores vigorously, and in an hour or two was cool enough to laugh over the scene and long for next week.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The new seismic observations paint a more detailed picture of the Pacific Plate bending into the trench, resolving its 3D structure and tracking the relative speeds of types of rock that have different capabilities for holding water.
(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)
On further consideration this appeared so likely, that I abandoned my scheme, which had had a more promising appearance in words than in action; resolving henceforth to be satisfied with my child-wife, and to try to change her into nothing else by any process.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Charles shewed himself at the window, all was ready, their visitor had bowed and was gone, the Miss Musgroves were gone too, suddenly resolving to walk to the end of the village with the sportsmen: the room was cleared, and Anne might finish her breakfast as she could.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For a minute he was ruffled again at the mere thought of it, and then the fear that Meg would cry herself sick softened his heart, and sent him on at a quicker pace, resolving to be calm and kind, but firm, quite firm, and show her where she had failed in her duty to her spouse.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
