resistance

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Singular
resistance

Plural
resistances

resistance (plural resistances)

  1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
  2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
  3. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
  4. (sociology) An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

[edit] Translations

act of resisting
force that tends to oppose motion
shortened form of electrical resistance
underground organization struggling for liberation
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