resistance

See also: résistance

English

Alternative forms

• resistaunce (obsolete)
• resistence (rare, see usage notes)

Etymology

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.

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.

   Synonym: opposition

   • 1695, John Kettlewell, Chriſtianity, a Doctrine of the Cross: or, Paſſive Obedience under any Pretended Invaſion of Legal Rights and Liberties‎^[1], page 89:

     […] this Autority of his Perſon, doth notwithſtanding lay on us an Obligation, of keeping under his Obedience, and making no warlike Reſiſtance.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎^[2]:

     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) Electrical resistance.
4. 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
• strong collision resistance
• tax resistance
• thermoresistance
• thromboresistance
• transresistance
• unresistance

 

Derived terms

• Lord's Resistance Army
• resistance distance
• resistance frame
• resistance training

 

Translations

act of resisting

• Arabic: مُقَاوَمَة‎ f (muqāwama)
• Asturian: resistencia f
• Belarusian: супраціўле́нне n (supraciŭljénnje), супраці́ў m (supracíŭ)
• Bulgarian: съпротивле́ние (bg) n (sǎprotivlénie)
• Catalan: resistència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抵抗 (zh) (dǐkàng), 反抗 (zh) (fǎnkàng), 抵抗力 (zh) (dǐkànglì) (against disease)

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Danish: modstand c
• Dutch: weerstand (nl) m, verzet (nl)
• Finnish: vastarinta (fi), vastustuskyky (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia f
• Georgian: წინააღმდეგობა (c̣inaaɣmdegoba)
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)

  Ancient: ἀντίστασις f (antístasis)

• Hebrew: הִתְנַגְּדוּת‎ f (hitnag'dút)
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Indonesian: penentangan (id)
• Italian: resistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (ていこう, teikō), 反抗 (ja) (はんこう, hankō)

• Korean: 반항 (ko) (banhang), 저항 (ko) (jeohang)
• Lao: ຄວາມຕ້ານທານ (khuām tān thān)
• Luxembourgish: Widderstand m
• Macedonian: о́тпор m (ótpor)
• Malay: rintangan, penentangan
• Middle English: resistence
• Norwegian: motstand m
• Old English: anbyrdnes f, andwig n
• Polish: opór (pl) m, sprzeciw (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Romanian: rezistare (ro) f, opunere (ro) f, rezistență (ro) f
• Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije), отпо́р (ru) m (otpór) (rebuff)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: отпор m

  Roman: otpor (sh) m

• Slovak: odpor m
• Slovene: odpor (sl) m
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: motstånd (sv) n
• Thai: การต่อต้าน (th) (gaan-dtòr-dtâan)
• Ukrainian: о́пір m (ópir)
• Vietnamese: sự chống cự

force that tends to oppose motion

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

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: modstand c
• Finnish: vastus (fi)
• Galician: resistencia f
• Georgian: უკუქმედება (uḳukmedeba)
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)

• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Indonesian: berlawanan arus
• Italian: resistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 抵抗力 (teikōryoku)
• Malay: rintangan, hambatan
• Norwegian: motkraft m or f
• Polish: opór (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije)
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f

shortened form of electrical resistance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Danish: modstand c, resistans (da) c
• Finnish: resistanssi (fi), vastus (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia f
• Georgian: წინაღობა (c̣inaɣoba)
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Icelandic: viðnám n, mótstaða f

• Indonesian: resistansi (id), resistansi (id), resistansi (id), resistansi (id)
• Italian: resistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (teikō)
• Maori: parehiko
• Norwegian: motstand m, resistans m
• Polish: opór (pl) m, rezystancja f, oporność f
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije)
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: resistans (sv) c
• Tagalog: sagwil

underground organization struggling for liberation

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

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Danish: modstandsbevægelse c
• Dutch: verzet (nl)
• Finnish: vastarintaliike (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia f
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)

  Ancient: ἀντίστασις f (antístasis)

• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Indonesian: kelompok pemberontak
• Middle English: resistence
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motstandsbevegelse m

• Polish: ruch oporu (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije)
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: motståndsrörelse (sv) c
• Tibetan: བཙན་རྒོལ་གསང་ཚོགས (btsan rgol gsang tshogs)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} résistance (fr)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} resistantia

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 阻力 (zh) (zǔlì)

References

• resistance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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