'Resistance' definitions:
Definition of 'resistance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead" [syn: resistance, opposition]
noun
Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
noun
A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms [syn: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistance, resistivity, ohmic resistance]
noun
The military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"
noun
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease [syn: immunity, resistance]
noun
The capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"
noun
A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force [syn: underground, resistance]
noun
The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
noun
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
noun
An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current [syn: resistor, resistance]
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Group action in opposition to those in power
Definition of 'Resistance'
From: GCIDE
- Resistance \Re*sist"ance\ (-ans), n. [F. r['e]sistance, LL. resistentia, fr. resistens, -entis, p. pr. See Resist.]
- 1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. [1913 Webster]
- When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. --1. Macc. xi. 38. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Physics) The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists. [1913 Webster]
- Unfold to us some warlike resistance. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Elec.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm. [1913 Webster]
- Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combined in various ways to afford more or less resistance.
- Resistance coil (Elec.), a coil of wire introduced into an electric circuit to increase the resistance.
- Solid of least resistance (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'resistance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquired immunity,
- active immunity,
- alienation,
- antagonism,
- antibody,
- antigen,
- antipathy,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- artificial immunity,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- avoidance mechanism,
- avoidance reaction,
- backlash,
- backwardness,
- base resistance,
- blame-shifting,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bucking,
- bushfighter,
- bushwhacker,
- callosity,
- callousness,
- capacitive reactance,
- casual,
- censorship,
- challenge,
- Charley,
- check,
- clashing,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coefficient of friction,
- cohesiveness,
- collision,
- compensation,
- conflict,
- confutation,
- congenital immunity,
- constriction,
- contention,
- contradiction,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contravention,
- contraversion,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- counteraction,
- counterposition,
- counterworking,
- cramp,
- crankiness,
- crosscurrent,
- crossing,
- crotchetiness,
- cursoriness,
- decompensation,
- defence,
- defense,
- defense in depth,
- defense mechanism,
- defenses,
- defiance,
- delay,
- denial,
- density,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- detainment,
- detention,
- deterrent capacity,
- disagreement,
- disinclination,
- disobedience,
- displacement,
- disrelish,
- dissent,
- dissociation,
- distaste,
- drag,
- durability,
- durity,
- ego defenses,
- electric resistance,
- emitter resistance,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- familial immunity,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- fixation,
- flight,
- flintiness,
- fluid friction,
- foot-dragging,
- force of friction,
- force of viscosity,
- forward transfer resistance,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- friction head,
- friction loss,
- frictional resistance,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- guard,
- guerillas,
- guerrilla,
- hampering,
- hardiness,
- hardness,
- hardness of heart,
- head wind,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- immunity,
- immunization,
- impedance,
- impediment,
- impenetrability,
- impugnation,
- impugnment,
- incorrigibility,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- indomitability,
- inductive reactance,
- induration,
- infrangibility,
- inherent immunity,
- inherited immunity,
- inhibition,
- input resistance,
- insuppressibility,
- interference,
- internal friction,
- interruption,
- intractability,
- intractableness,
- intransigence,
- irregular,
- irrepressibility,
- isolation,
- kick,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- lastingness,
- leatherlikeness,
- let,
- magnetic reluctance,
- maquis,
- maquisard,
- mutinousness,
- natural immunity,
- negation,
- negative taxis,
- negativism,
- nolition,
- nonconformity,
- nonspecific immunity,
- nonsusceptibility to disease,
- nuisance value,
- obduracy,
- obstinacy,
- obstreperousness,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- ohm,
- ohmage,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- oppugnation,
- opsonic immunity,
- output resistance,
- overcompensation,
- partisan,
- passive immunity,
- perfunctoriness,
- perverseness,
- phagocytic immunity,
- projection,
- protection,
- psychological block,
- psychological defenses,
- psychotaxis,
- racial immunity,
- rationalization,
- reactance,
- reaction,
- rebelliousness,
- rebutment,
- rebuttal,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recoil,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- reluctance,
- reluctivity,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repercussion,
- repression,
- repugnance,
- resistance fighter,
- restiveness,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- revolt,
- rolling friction,
- ropiness,
- self-defense,
- self-preservation,
- self-protection,
- setback,
- shrewishness,
- skin effect,
- skin friction,
- sliding friction,
- slip friction,
- slowness,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- solidity,
- specific immunity,
- specific reluctance,
- squeeze,
- stamina,
- standing against,
- starting friction,
- static friction,
- steeliness,
- stiffness,
- stoniness,
- stranglehold,
- strength,
- stricture,
- stringiness,
- stubbornness,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- suppression,
- surface resistance,
- swimming upstream,
- tenacity,
- the defensive,
- toughness,
- toxin-antitoxin immunity,
- traversal,
- unbreakability,
- unbreakableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undercurrent,
- underground,
- underground fighter,
- unenthusiasm,
- ungovernability,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unruliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- unwillingness,
- VC,
- Vietcong,
- viscidity,
- vitality,
- volume resistance,
- ward,
- wildness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
Words containing 'Resistance'
- Resist,
- Resistant,
- Resisted,
- Resister,
- Resistful,
- Resistibility,
- Resistible,
- Resistibleness,
- Resistibly,
- Resisting,
- Resistive,
- resistivity,
- Resistance box,
- Resistance coil,
- Resistance frame,
- Resisting ly,
- Skin resistance,
- Unit of resistance,
- acoustic resistance,
- coefficient of resistance,
- electric resistance,
- electrical resistance,
- least resistance,
- nonviolent resistance,
- ohmic resistance,
- passive resistance,
- passive resister,
- repellent resistant,
- resistance pyrometer,
- resistance thermometer,
- resistance unit,
- resisting arrest,
- sales resistance,
- Ni-resist,
- Solid of least resistance,
- corrosion-resistant,
- crease-resistant,
- fire-resistant,
- fire-resisting,
- fire-resistive,
- islamic resistance movement,
- line of least resistance,
- lord's resistance army,
- moth-resistant,
- non-resistant,
- path of least resistance,
- penicillin-resistant,
- piece de resistance,
- rot-resistant,
- run-resistant,
- rust-resistant,
- water-resistant,
- wrinkle-resistant,
- ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes,
- ketosis-resistant diabetes,
- ni-resist iron,
- penicillin-resistant bacteria,
- penicillinase-resistant antibiotic,
- first of october antifascist resistance group,
- ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus,
- ketosis-resistant diabetes mellitus