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See also: résistance
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- resistaunce (obsolete)
- resistence (rare, see usage notes)
Etymology[edit]
From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.
Morphologically resist + -ance.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)
- 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
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- (physics) Electrical resistance.
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
Hypernyms[edit]
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
act of resisting
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force that tends to oppose motion
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shortened form of electrical resistance
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underground organization struggling for liberation
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References[edit]
resistance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
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