resistance
See also: résistance
English
Alternative forms
- resistaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French, from Late Latin resistentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/
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Noun
resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
- Synonym: opposition
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess:
- When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
- widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
- the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- (physics) Electrical resistance.
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
Hypernyms
- air resistance
- antibioresistance
- antiresistance
- chemoresistance
- collision resistance
- coresistance
- counterresistance
- cytoresistance
- elastoresistance
- electrical resistance
- electroresistance
- heteroresistance
- hyperresistance
- immunoresistance
- impact resistance
- irresistance
- Kapitza resistance
- magnetoresistance
- monoresistance
- nonresistance
- ozone resistance
- panresistance
- pharmacoresistance
- photoresistance
- piezoresistance
- polyresistance
- pre-image resistance
- radioresistance
- rolling resistance
- strong collision resistance
- tax resistance
- thermoresistance
- thromboresistance
- transresistance
- unresistance
Derived terms
- Lord's Resistance Army
- resistance distance
- resistance frame
- resistance training
Translations
act of resisting
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force that tends to oppose motion
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shortened form of electrical resistance
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underground organization struggling for liberation
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