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Resistance

//ɹɪˈzɪstəns// noun

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

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

  2. 2
    the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with wordnet
  3. 3
    A force that tends to oppose motion. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the military action of resisting the enemy's advance wordnet
  5. 5
    Electrical resistance. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    group action in opposition to those in power wordnet
  2. 7
    A resistor. countable, dated, uncountable

    "In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel […]"

  3. 8
    an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current wordnet
  4. 9
    An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement. countable, uncountable

    "Alliance forces are stretched too thin right now to attempt to liberate the colony, but we've been doing what we can to covertly aid the local resistance."

  5. 10
    (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness wordnet
  6. 11
    the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) wordnet
  7. 12
    a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force wordnet
  8. 13
    any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion wordnet
  9. 14
    a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms wordnet
  10. 15
    the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents wordnet
  11. 16
    (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease wordnet

Etymology

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia. Morphologically resist + -ance.

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