Resistance vs. Resistence
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The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
âwidespread resistance to the new urban development plansâ; âthe resistance of bacteria to certain antibioticsâ;
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resistance.
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(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
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(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
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An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
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The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
âWhen King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces.â;
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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.
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A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
âUnfold to us some warlike resistance.â;
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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.
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the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with;
âhe encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizensâ; âdespite opposition from the newspapers he went aheadâ;
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any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
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a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
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the military action of resisting the enemy's advance;
âthe enemy offered little resistanceâ;
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(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
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a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
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the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
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(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
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an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
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group action in opposition to those in power
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the refusal to accept or comply with something
âthey displayed a narrow-minded resistance to changeâ;
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the use of force or violence to oppose someone or something
âshe put up no resistance to being led awayâ; âgovernment forces were unable to crush guerrilla-style resistanceâ;
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a secret organization resisting authority, especially in an occupied country
âhe went underground and joined the resistanceâ;
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the underground movement formed in France during the Second World War to fight the German occupying forces and the Vichy government.
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the ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely
âsome of us have a lower resistance to cold than othersâ;
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lack of sensitivity to a drug, insecticide, etc., especially as a result of continued exposure or genetic change
âmany insects show resistance to at least one chemicalâ;
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the impeding or stopping effect exerted by one material thing on another
âair resistance was reduced by streamliningâ;
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the degree to which a substance or device opposes the passage of an electric current, causing energy dissipation. By Ohm's law resistance (measured in ohms) is equal to the voltage divided by the current.
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a resistor or other circuit component which opposes the passage of an electric current.
