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resistant - 3 dictionary results

re⋅sist⋅ant

  [ri-zis-tuhnt]
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–adjective
1. resisting.
–noun
2. a person or thing that resists.
Origin:
1590–1600; < MF resistant, prp. of resister to resist; see -ant

Related forms:
re⋅sist⋅ant⋅ly, adverb
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re·sis·tance   (rĭ-zĭs'təns)   
n.  
  1. The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist.
  2. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.
  3. often Resistance An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.
  4. Psychology A process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences.
  5. Biology
    1. The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease.
    2. The capacity of an organism or a tissue to withstand the effects of a harmful environmental agent.
  6. 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.
re·sis'tant adj.
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Main Entry: re·sis·tant
Variant: also re·sis·tent /-t&nt/
Function: adjective
: making or having powers ofresistance resistant to disease>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Language Translation for : resistant
Spanish: resistente,
German: widerstandsfähig,
Japanese: 抵抗力のある
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