The ability of an optical instrument or type of film to separate or distinguish small or closely adjacent images.
（光学仪器或胶片的）分辨率
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For any optical system a measure of the best-possible resolution or resolving power is simply the ratio of the wavelength to the diameter of the aperture.
In other words, a telescope must have sufficient resolving power to distinguish individual Cepheids from all the other stars in the galaxy.
The city's skyscrapers give the landscape a lumpy appearance, but the instrument's resolving power fails to distinguish individual buildings.
Students of medicine, in particular, and of biology will find that the light microscope is the most important tool they will use, in spite of physical limitations in its resolving power.
He did not need enormous magnification, but he did require considerable resolving power in order to make out the separate stars.
Definition of resolving power in US English:
resolving power
noun
1The ability of an optical instrument or type of film to separate or distinguish small or closely adjacent images.
（光学仪器或胶片的）分辨率
Example sentencesExamples
Students of medicine, in particular, and of biology will find that the light microscope is the most important tool they will use, in spite of physical limitations in its resolving power.
The city's skyscrapers give the landscape a lumpy appearance, but the instrument's resolving power fails to distinguish individual buildings.
For any optical system a measure of the best-possible resolution or resolving power is simply the ratio of the wavelength to the diameter of the aperture.
In other words, a telescope must have sufficient resolving power to distinguish individual Cepheids from all the other stars in the galaxy.
He did not need enormous magnification, but he did require considerable resolving power in order to make out the separate stars.
1.1The ability of an electronic device to produce images that can be distinguished.