HIGH-RESOLUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-resolution mean? 

• HIGH-RESOLUTION (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-RESOLUTION has 1 sense:

1. producing images that are sharp and finely detailed

  Familiarity information: HIGH-RESOLUTION used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-RESOLUTION (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Producing images that are sharp and finely detailed

Context example:

high-resolution television

Antonym:

low-resolution (of computer output devices; producing images that are not sharply defined)

 Context examples 

The previous close Cassini flybys yielded high-resolution views of the bright, wispy terrain on Dione first seen during the Voyager mission.

(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)

This method allowed them to capture high-resolution snapshots of receptors in several transitional stages.

(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)

The final descent gave Rosetta the opportunity to study the comet's gas, dust and plasma environment very close to its surface, as well as take very high-resolution images.

(Final Descent Image from Rosetta Spacecraft, NASA)

Each person had a high-resolution MRI scan, which provides a detailed look at the medial temporal lobe, or MTL, a brain region involved in the formation of new memories.

(Sitting Is Bad for Your Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The answer to this mystery came from comparison of the survey results with high-resolution data collected in 2010 by Cassini’s heat-sensing instruments.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

“What they found in their high-resolution scans was solid evidence that these structural changes already are prominent by age 4 or 5.”

(Atypical brain development observed in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms, National Institutes of Health)

They next examined high-resolution MRI or CT brain scans of the participants to map the location of their lesions with their symptoms.

(Brain Mapping of Language Impairments, NIH)

They identified two different iron cyano-carbonyl complexes in the meteorites using high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)

When they examined the information gathered during that flyby 21 years ago, sure enough, high-resolution magnetometer data showed something strange.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

Radar scientists will capture high-resolution images that could show its surface features.

(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)