resistance

See also: résistance

English

Alternative forms

• resistaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French, from Late Latin resistantia.

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, in 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 organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

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 f
• Chinese:

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

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

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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

• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Indonesian: berlawanan arus
• Japanese: 抵抗力 (teikōryoku)
• Malay: rintangan, hambatan
• Norwegian: motkraft m, 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)
• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (teikō)
• 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 f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Dutch: verzet (nl)
• Finnish: vastarintaliike (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia f
• German: Widerstand (de) m

• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Indonesian: kelompok pemberontak
• 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

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)

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