RESISTANCE

resistance, opposition

(noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; “he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens”; “despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead”

resistance

(noun) the military action of resisting the enemy’s advance; “the enemy offered little resistance”

resistance

(noun) group action in opposition to those in power

resistor, resistance

(noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

resistance

(noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

resistance

(noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

underground, resistance

(noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

resistance

(noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

resistance

(noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; “these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog”

immunity, resistance

(noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

Synonym: opposition

(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

• ohmic resistance

• ozone resistance

• panresistance

• pharmacoresistance

• photoresistance

• piezoresistance

• polyresistance

• pre-image resistance

• radioresistance

• rolling resistance

• tax resistance

• thermoresistance

• thromboresistance

• transresistance

• unresistance

• strong collision resistance

Anagrams

• ancestries, increasest, senatrices

Source: Wiktionary

Re*sist"ance (-ans), n. Etym: [F. résistance, LL. resistentia, fr. resistens, - entis, p. pr. See Resist.]

1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

2. (Physics)

Definition: The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.

3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists. Unfold to us some warlike resistance. Shak.

4. (Elec.)

Definition: A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm. Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combined in various ways to afford more or less resistance.

– Resistance coil (Elec.), a coil of wire introduced into an electric circuit to increase the resistance.

– Solid of least resistance (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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