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1.nounThe act of reserving, withholding or keeping back."The committee authorised the reservation of funds."
2.nounSomething that is withheld or kept back.
3.noun(often in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt."I have reservations about your intentions."
4.nounA tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
5.nounAn arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance."I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith."
6.nounThe area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation."A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic."
7.nounThe setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
8.noun(behaviour) Restriction.
9.nounThat which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
10.noun(social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
11.nounIn exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
12.noun(calico printing) A resist.
13.nounA preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
14.nounThe place where one lives; one's home.
15.nounA building used as a home.
16.nounThe place where a corporation is established.
17.nounThe state of living in a particular place or environment.
18.nounAccommodation for students at a university or college.
19.nounThe place where anything rests permanently.
20.nounSubsidence, as of a sediment
21.nounThat which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
22.nounA strong will, determination.
23.nounThe state of being resolute."His stalwart resolution is perhaps admirable, perhaps foolish."
24.nounA statement of intent, a vow"By February, most New Year's resolutions are forgotten. My resolution is to cut back on the fast food this year."
25.nounThe act of discerning detail.
26.noun(computing, photography) 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)."Printing at higher resolution will cause a reduction in performance."
27.nounThe number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed."This monitor's maximum resolution is 1600 × 1200."
28.nounThe process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup."name resolution"
29.nounThe act or process of solving; solution."the resolution of an equation"
30.nounA formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting."The resolution was passed by a two-thirds majority."
31.nounThe separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
32.nounThe degree of fineness of such a separation.
33.nounProgression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
34.nounThe moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
35.nounIn a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
36.nounThe quality of being resonant.
37.nounA resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
38.nounThe sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
39.nounSomething that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
40.nounThe increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
41.nounA short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles."2004, When experiments with the first ‘atom-smashers’ took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as ‘resonances’, were discovered. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)"
42.nounAn increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
43.nounThe property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons; mesomerism.
44.nounA influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
45.nounThe condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
46.nounThe act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
47.nounBodysnatching
48.verbShort form of resurrect.
49.verbTo spawn or load into the game."Don't rez some enormous prop, it'll lag the server!"
50.nounA base of Russian espionage operations within a foreign country.