RESISTANCE
\ɹɪsˈɪstəns], \ɹɪsˈɪstəns], \ɹ_ɪ_s_ˈɪ_s_t_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of RESISTANCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"
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group action in opposition to those in power
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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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any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
By Princeton University
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the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"
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group action in opposition to those in power
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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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any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of opposing; a striving against; any force that works against another; the amount of power possessed by a body to oppose the passage through it of an electric current.
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Resistant.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Act of resisting: opposition: (mech.) the power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse of another.
By Daniel Lyons
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Act of resisting; opposition.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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