resistance

See also Resistance, résistance, and Résistance

English

Alternative forms

• resistaunce

Etymology

From French résistance

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/

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Noun

resistance (plural resistances)

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

   widespread resistance to the new urban development plans

   the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics

2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
4. An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

Translations

act of resisting

• Arabic: مقاومة (ar) (muqaawama) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抵抗 (cmn) (dǐkàng), 反抗 (cmn) (fǎnkàng)

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Dutch: weerstand (nl) m
• Finnish: vastarinta (fi), vastustuskyky (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia (gl) f
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) (antístasi) f 
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Italian: resistenza (it) f

• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (teikō), 反抗 (ja) (hankō)
• Korean: 반항 (ko) (banhang)
• Luxembourgish: Widderstand (lb) m
• Malay: rintangan (ms)
• Norwegian: motstand (no) m
• Polish: opór (pl) m, sprzeciw (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Romanian: rezistare (ro) f, opunere (ro) f, rezistență (ro)
• Russian: сопротивление (ru) (soprotivlénije) n 
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: motstånd (sv) n

force that tends to oppose motion

• Finnish: vastus (fi)
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) (antístasi) f 
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)

• Japanese: 抵抗力 (ja) (teikōryoku)
• Norwegian: motkraft (no) m and f
• Polish: opór (pl) m
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f

shortened form of electrical resistance

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Finnish: resistanssi (fi), vastus (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) (antístasi) f 
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)

• Icelandic: viðnám (is) n, mótstaða (is) f
• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (teikō)
• Norwegian: motstand (no) m, resistans (no) m
• Polish: opór (pl) m, rezystancja (pl) f, oporność (pl) f
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: resistans (sv) c

underground organization struggling for liberation

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Finnish: vastarintaliike (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) (antístasi) f 

• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Norwegian: motstandsbevegelse (no) m
• Polish: ruch oporu (pl) m
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: motståndsrörelse (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 阻力 (cmn) (zǔlì)
• French: résistance (fr)
• Latin: resistantia (la)

• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Spanish: resistencia (es)

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