ALL meanings of resistance
re·sist·ance
R r - noun resistance physical 1
- noun resistance mental 1
- noun resistance electric 1
- noun resistance military 1
- noun resistance person: to disease 1
- noun resistance plant: to disease, pests 1
- noun resistance stopping motion 1
- noun resistance the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. 1
- noun resistance the opposition offered by one thing, force, etc., to another. 1
- noun resistance Electricity. Also called ohmic resistance. a property of a conductor by virtue of which the passage of current is opposed, causing electric energy to be transformed into heat: equal to the voltage across the conductor divided by the current flowing in the conductor: usually measured in ohms. Abbreviation: R. a conductor or coil offering such opposition; resistor. 1
- noun resistance Psychiatry. opposition to an attempt to bring repressed thoughts or feelings into consciousness. 1
- noun resistance (often initial capital letter) an underground organization composed of groups of private individuals working as an opposition force in a conquered country to overthrow the occupying power, usually by acts of sabotage, guerrilla warfare, etc.: the resistance during the German occupation in World War II. 1
- noun resistance Stock Exchange. resistance level. 1
- noun resistance the active psychological opposition to the bringing of unconscious, usually repressed, material to consciousness 0
- noun resistance Resistance is a measure of the opposition to electrical flow in DC systems, counted in ohms. 0
- uncountable noun resistance Resistance to something such as a change or a new idea is a refusal to accept it. 0
- uncountable noun resistance Resistance to an attack consists of fighting back against the people who have attacked you. 0
- uncountable noun resistance The resistance of your body to germs or diseases is its power to remain unharmed or unaffected by them. 0
- uncountable noun resistance Wind or air resistance is a force which slows down a moving object or vehicle. 0
- variable noun resistance In electrical engineering or physics, resistance is the ability of a substance or an electrical circuit to stop the flow of an electrical current through it. 0
- singular noun resistance In a country which is occupied by the army of another country, or which has a very harsh and strict government, the resistance is an organized group of people who are involved in illegal activities against the people in power. 0
- noun resistance the act or an instance of resisting 0
- noun resistance the capacity to withstand something, esp the body's natural capacity to withstand disease 0
- noun resistance the opposition to a flow of electric current through a circuit component, medium, or substance. It is the magnitude of the real part of the impedance and is measured in ohms 0
- noun resistance (as modifier) 0
- noun resistance any force that tends to retard or oppose motion 0
- noun resistance (in psychoanalytical theory) the tendency of a person to prevent the translation of repressed thoughts and ideas from the unconscious to the conscious and esp to resist the analyst's attempt to bring this about 0
- noun resistance the magnitude of the real part of the acoustic or mechanical impedance 0
- noun resistance the act of resisting, opposing, withstanding, etc. 0
- noun resistance power or capacity to resist; specif., the ability of an organism to ward off disease 0
- noun resistance opposition of some force, thing, etc. to another or others 0
- noun resistance a force that retards, hinders, or opposes motion 0
- noun resistance the organized underground movement in a country fighting against a foreign occupying power, a dictatorship, etc., as in France during the Nazi occupation 0
- noun resistance the property of a component by which it resists the flow of electricity, usually measured in ohms and equal to the ratio of the voltage to the current: it is the reciprocal of conductance (abbrev. R) 0
- abbreviation RESISTANCE resistor 0