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resistance
[ ri-zis-tuhns ]
noun
- the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
Synonyms: intransigence, defiance, obstinacy, opposition
- the opposition offered by one thing, force, etc., to another.
- Electricity.
- Also called ohmic resistance. a property of a conductor by virtue of which the passage of current is opposed, causing electric energy to be transformed into heat: equal to the voltage across the conductor divided by the current flowing in the conductor: usually measured in ohms. : R
- a conductor or coil offering such opposition; resistor.
- Psychiatry. opposition to an attempt to bring repressed thoughts or feelings into consciousness.
- (often initial capital letter) an underground organization composed of groups of private individuals working as an opposition force in a conquered country to overthrow the occupying power, usually by acts of sabotage, guerrilla warfare, etc.:
the resistance during the German occupation in World War II.
- Stock Exchange. resistance level.
Resistance
1/ rɪˈzɪstəns /
noun
- the Resistancean illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
resistance
2/ rɪˈzɪstəns /
noun
- the act or an instance of resisting
- the capacity to withstand something, esp the body's natural capacity to withstand disease
- the opposition to a flow of electric current through a circuit component, medium, or substance. It is the magnitude of the real part of the impedance and is measured in ohms R Compare reactance
- ( as modifier )
resistance coupling
a resistance thermometer
- any force that tends to retard or oppose motion
air resistance
wind resistance
- (in psychoanalytical theory) the tendency of a person to prevent the translation of repressed thoughts and ideas from the unconscious to the conscious and esp to resist the analyst's attempt to bring this about
- physics the magnitude of the real part of the acoustic or mechanical impedance
- line of least resistancethe easiest, but not necessarily the best or most honourable, course of action
resistance
/ rĭ-zĭs′təns /
- A force, such as friction, that operates opposite the direction of motion of a body and tends to prevent or slow down the body's motion.
- A measure of the degree to which a substance impedes the flow of electric current induced by a voltage. Resistance is measured in ohms. Good conductors, such as copper, have low resistance. Good insulators, such as rubber, have high resistance. Resistance causes electrical energy to be dissipated as heat.
- See also Ohm's law
- The capacity of an organism, tissue, or cell to withstand the effects of a harmful physical or environmental agent, such as a microorganism or pollutant.
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- inter·re·sistance noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of resistance1
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Example Sentences
But that makes the Ismael brothers no less proud of the resistance that they and other fellow fighters have put up.
In the future, antibiotic resistance could have catastrophic consequences.
There would, then, likely be significant police resistance to this measure.
It is this very sensitive issue that has galvanized widespread resistance from previously loyal campesinos.
Conservative Muslim women in Turkey hailed Esme as a martyr and a symbol of female strength and resistance.
There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.
A double detachment of soldiers was already there, with orders to support him in case of resistance.
A mild degree means that the body is not reacting well, or else that the infection is too slight to call forth much resistance.
This stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.
His voice grated—like machinery started with violent effort against resistance.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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