resistance

See also: Resistance, résistance, and Résistance

English

Alternative forms

• resistaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From French résistance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/

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Noun

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, The China Governess^[1]:

     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

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 f (muqaawama)
• Asturian: resistencia f
• Catalan: resistència f
• Chinese:

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

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

• Italian: resistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (teikō), 反抗 (ja) (hankō)
• Korean: 반항 (ko) (banhang)
• Luxembourgish: Widderstand m
• Malay: rintangan, penentangan
• Norwegian: motstand m
• Polish: opór (pl) m, sprzeciw (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Romanian: rezistare (ro) f, opunere (ro) f, rezistență (ro)
• Russian: сопротивление (ru) n (soprotivlénije)
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: motstånd (sv) n

force that tends to oppose motion

• Asturian: resistencia f
• Catalan: resistència f
• Finnish: vastus (fi)
• Galician: resistencia f
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)

• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Japanese: 抵抗力 (teikōryoku)
• Malay: rintangan, hambatan
• Norwegian: motkraft m, 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
• Galician: resistencia f
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)

• Icelandic: viðnám n, mótstaða f
• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (teikō)
• Norwegian: motstand m, resistans m
• Polish: opór (pl) m, rezystancja f, oporność f
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: resistans (sv) c

underground organization struggling for liberation

• Asturian: resistencia f
• Catalan: resistència f
• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Dutch: verzet (nl)
• Finnish: vastarintaliike
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia f

• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Norwegian: motstandsbevegelse m
• Polish: ruch oporu (pl) m
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: motståndsrörelse c

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

• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f

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