Resistance vs. Resistivity — What's the Difference?

The refusal to accept or comply with something

The capacity for or tendency toward resistance.

The ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely

(Electricity) An intrinsic property of a material that is measured as its resistance to current per unit length for a uniform cross section.

The impeding or stopping effect exerted by one material thing on another

(electricity) The resistance offered at a particular temperature by an electrical conductor of any given material in a cube of unit length, expressed in ohm-metres (Ωm) in the metric system of measurement.

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.

(thermodynamics) The reciprocal of thermal conductivity, having SI unit: m K W^-1

The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist.

A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.

Often Resistance An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.

(Psychology) A process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences.

Ability (of an organism, tissue, or cell) to withstand a destructive agent or condition such as a chemical compound, a disease agent, or an environmental stressor

Lack of normal response to a biologically active compound such as a hormone

(Electricity) The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.

Thermal resistance.

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

(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.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

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.

A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

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.

The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with;

Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

The military action of resisting the enemy's advance;

(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

Group action in opposition to those in power