resistance
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Etymology [edit]
From French résistance
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resistance (plural resistances)
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
- widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
- the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
- An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
Translations [edit]
act of resisting
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force that tends to oppose motion
shortened form of electrical resistance
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underground organization struggling for liberation
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