Resolution

[Sarah]

This term can describe either how many pixels a monitor can display or how fine a printer can print.

1. Monitors. A small monitor may have a resolution or 640 x 480, which means there are 640 pixels horizontally across the screen and 480 pixels vertically. Some other common monitor resolutions are 800 x 600, 1,024 x 768, and 1,280 x 1,024. The higher the resolution, the more that can be displayed on the screen.

2. Printers. Printer resolution measures how fine a printer can print. This measurement is known as dots per inch, or dpi. The greater the dpi, the better the image clarity. Scanner resolution is also measured in dpi.

[Merna]

The maximum number of [pixels] that can be displayed on a [monitor], and a measurement for [e-penis] size.

[Couch Potatoe]

A firm decision to do or not to do something.

[Jessica]

Resolution measures the number of pixels in a digital image or display. It is defined as width by height, or W x H, where W is the number of horizontal pixels and H is the number of vertical pixels. For example, the resolution of an HDTV is 1920 x 1080.
A digital photo that is 3,088 pixels wide by 2,320 pixels tall has a resolution of 3088 × 2320. Multiplying these numbers together produces 7,164,160 total pixels. Since the photo contains just over seven million pixels, it is considered a 7 megapixel image. Digital camera resolution is often measured in megapixels, which is simply another way to express the image resolution.
Every monitor and screen has a specific resolution. As mentioned above, an HD display has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. A 4K display has twice the resolution of HD, or 3840 x 2160 pixels. It is called 4K since the screen is nearly 4,000 pixels across horizontally. The total number of pixels in a 4K display is 8,294,400, or just over eight megapixels.
Monitor resolution defines how many pixels a screen can display, but it does not describe how fine the image is. For example, a 27 iMac 5K display has a resolution of 5120 x 2880 while an older 27 Apple Thunderbolt Display has exactly half the resolution of 2560 x 1440. Since the 27 iMac is the same physical size as the Thunderbolt Display but has twice the resolution, it has twice the pixel density, measured in pixels per inch, or PPI.
NOTE: Unlike monitor resolution, the resolution of a printer or scanner is analogous to pixel density rather than total pixels. Printer and scanner resolution is measured in dots per inch, or DPI.
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Screen resolutions from HD to 4K

[Julene]

A term that refers to the number of pixels on a display or in a camera sensor (specifically in a digital image). A higher resolution means more pixels and more pixels provide the ability to display more visual information (resulting in greater clarity and more detail). Standard Display Resolution Sizes

The industry standard way of representing screen resolution is publishing the number of pixels that form the two sides of the display rectangle.

A number of standards currently exist when it comes to display resolutions: Name(s) Resolution in pixels High Definition (HD) 1280 x 720 Full HD, FHD 1920 x 1080 2K, Quad HD, QHD 2560 x 1440 4K, Ultra HD 3840 x 2160

  Standard display sizes compared

When launched in 2007, the original iPhone came with a screen resolution of 320 pixels x 480 pixels. A range of smartphone screen resolutions compared

Resolution does not refer to the physical size of the display, camera sensor or image. For example, two displays with the same resolution can have different physical dimensions. Hence the importance of the other parameter that we publish - pixel density, which is measured in pixels-per-inch (ppi). Since a smaller display of the same resolution will have more pixels per inch the image provided by it should be clearer and more detailed (although graphics will be physically smaller).