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Meaning of 'resistance' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Resistance [ n.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'resistance' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . resistance [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
Example in sentence:
  • despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead;
  • he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens
Meaning (2):
- the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
Example in sentence:
  • the enemy offered little resistance
Meaning (3):
- the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
Example in sentence:
  • these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog

Nearby Words:

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