resistance
Nouns
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(n) 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
- (n) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
- (n) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms electrical resistance, electric resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity,
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(n) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
- the enemy offered little resistance
- (n) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease immunity,
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(n) 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
- (n) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force underground,
- (n) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
- (n) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
- (n) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current resistor,
- (n) group action in opposition to those in power