The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist.
A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.
often Resistance An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.
Psychology A process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences.
Biology
The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease.
The capacity of an organism or a tissue to withstand the effects of a harmful environmental agent.
Electricity The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.
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