Resolution
Ah, yes, the annual promise we make to ourselves or to the world is called a resolution: we resolve to become better in some specific way. The fame of this process is that it often fails. The failures are given more attention than the successes, as if failure was a part of the process. We don't resolve to do something at the end of the year unless we expect to fail. You can make the same resolution year after year because you will always fail at it.

But resolution also means the solution of a problem or conflict. Out of several alternatives we choose one that satisfies as many of the parameters or people involved as possible. We like wars to have peaceful resolutions.

In optics, resolution refers to the fineness of lines that can be distinguished. Good optical systems distinguish fine lines close together that poorer systems would see as a single broader line.

One word, multiple meanings that we distinguish mostly by context. The English language has about 600,000 words in active use at any time, with a thousand or so added or lost each year, and a highly educated person may have an active vocabulary of 100,000 of those words (the average person recognizes 10,000 to 20,000). Yet we use fewer than 800 words for 96% of our communications.

We do so by overloading those words (giving words multiple meanings) and depending on context to sort out the meanings.

It is miraculous that this doesn't lead to chaos. It is natural that it does lead to unintended humor as multiple meanings are extracted from what we say and write.