What does resistance mean?
Definitions for resistance
rɪˈzɪs tənsre·sis·tance
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Princeton's WordNet
resistance, oppositionnoun
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"
resistancenoun
any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistance, resistivity, ohmic resistancenoun
a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
resistancenoun
the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
"the enemy offered little resistance"
immunity, resistancenoun
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
resistancenoun
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"
underground, resistancenoun
a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
resistancenoun
the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
resistancenoun
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
resistor, resistancenoun
an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
resistancenoun
group action in opposition to those in power
Wiktionary
resistancenoun
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
resistancenoun
A force that tends to oppose motion.
resistancenoun
Shortened form of electrical resistance.
resistancenoun
An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
resistancenoun
The genitals.
Etymology: From résistance
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Resistance, Resistence
Etymology: resistance, Fr.
Demetrius, seeing that the land was quiet, and that no resistance was made against him, sent away all his forces. 1 Mac.
The resistance of bone to cold is greater than of flesh; for that the flesh shrinketh, but the bone resisteth, whereby the cold becometh more eager. Francis Bacon.
Musick so softens and disarms the mind,
That not an arrow does resistance find. Edmund Waller.The idea of solidity we receive by our touch, and it arises from the resistance which we find in body to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses. John Locke.
But that part of the resistance, which arises from the vis inertiæ, is proportional to the density of the matter, and cannot be diminished by dividing the matter into smaller parts, nor by any other means, than by decreasing the density of the medium. Isaac Newton, Opticks.
Webster Dictionary
Resistancenoun
the act of resisting; opposition, passive or active
Resistancenoun
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
Resistancenoun
a means or method of resisting; that which resists
Resistancenoun
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
Etymology: [F. rsistance, LL. resistentia, fr. resistens, -entis, p. pr. See Resist.]
Freebase
Resistance
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The Standard Electrical Dictionary
Resistance
(a) The quality of an electric conductor, in virtue of which it opposes the passage of an electric current, causing the disappearance of electro-motive force if a current passes through it, and converting electric energy into heat energy in the passage of a current through it. If a current passes through a conductor of uniform resistance there is a uniform fall of potential all along its length. If of uneven resistance the fall in potential varies with the resistance. (See Potential, Fall of.) The fall of potential is thus expressed by Daniell. "In a conductor, say a wire, along which a current is steadily and uniformly passing, there is no internal accumulation of electricity, no density of internal distribution; there is, on the other hand, an unequally distributed charge of electricity on the surface of the wire, which results in a potential diminishing within the wire from one end of the wire to the other." Resistance varies inversely with the cross section of a cylindrical or prismatic conductor, in general with the average cross-section of any conductor, and in the same sense directly with its true or average or virtual length. It varies for different substances, and for different conditions as of temperature and pressure for the same substance. A rise of temperature in metals increases the resistance, in some bad conductors a rise of temperature decreases the resistance. Approximately, with the exception of iron and mercury, the resistance of a metallic conductor varies with the absolute temperature. This is very roughly approximate. Except for resistance energy would not be expended in maintaining a current through a circuit. The resistance of a conductor may be supposed to have its seat and cause in the jumps from molecule to molecule, which the current has to take in going through it. If so a current confined to a molecule would, if once started, persist because there would be no resistance in a molecule. Hence on this theory the Ampérian currents (see Magnetism, Ampere's Theory of) would require no energy for their maintenance and Ampére's theory would become a possible truth. When metals melt their resistance suddenly increases. Light rays falling on some substances, notably selenium, q. v., vary the resistance. Longitudinal stretching of a conductor decreases it, it increases with longitudinal compression, and increases in iron and diminishes in tin and zinc when a transverse stress tends to widen the conductor. (b) The term resistance is used to express any object or conductor used in circuit to develop resistance. [Transcriber's note: At room temperatures, the thermal motion of ions in the conductor's crystal lattice scatters the electrons of the current. Imperfections of the lattice contribute slightly. At low temperatures superconductivity (zero resistance) can occur because an energy gap between the electrons and the crystal lattice prevents any interaction. At the time of this book, none of this was known. "Jumps from molecule to molecule" is a good guess.]
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The numerical value of resistance in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
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The numerical value of resistance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of resistance in a Sentence
We are sounding the alarm, we have a 5-year window of opportunity. If we miss this, we will have a rebound in this epidemic, we'll have resistance and we will not be able to control the epidemic and make sure that we end it by 2030.
We have a 5-year window of opportunity. If we miss this, we will have a rebound in this epidemic, we'll have resistance and we will not be able to control the epidemic and make sure that we end it by 2030.
From a farmer’s perspective, the use of antibiotics helps ensure that food is safe, nutritious and affordable, what we have lacked is a coordinated, integrated approach to antibiotic resistance including experts on human health, food production animal health and the environment.
The Republican Party is broken. It's time for a resistance of the 'rationals' against the 'radicals,'.
They are against racial discrimination, but pernicious division and discrimination by race have been ongoing for a long time in admissions, so there is wrongful resistance to a change back to privileging individual merit. Those who see everything through the lens of color, want a superficial skin color result, or benefit from that, should join us in opposing discriminating by race.
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- مقاومةArabic
- resistènciaCatalan, Valencian
- odporCzech
- modstandDanish
- WiderstandGerman
- αντίστασηGreek
- rezistoEsperanto
- resistenciaSpanish
- مقاومتPersian
- resistanssi, vastarintaliike, vastus, vastarinta, vastustuskykyFinnish
- résistance, la résistanceFrench
- friotaíochtIrish
- resistenciaGalician
- प्रतिरोधHindi
- ellenállásHungarian
- viðnám, mótstaðaIcelandic
- resistenzaItalian
- הִתנַגְדוּתHebrew
- 反抗, 抵抗力, 抵抗Japanese
- ಪ್ರತಿರೋಧKannada
- 반항Korean
- resistentiamLatin
- WidderstandLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- rintangan, penentangan, hambatanMalay
- weerstand, verzetDutch
- resistans, motstand, motstandsbevegelse, motkraftNorwegian
- opór, ruch oporu, oporność, rezystancja, sprzeciwPolish
- resistênciaPortuguese
- opunere, rezistare, rezistențăRomanian
- сопротивлениеRussian
- motståndsrörelse, resistans, motståndSwedish
- எதிர்ப்புTamil
- dirençTurkish
- קעגנשטעלYiddish
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