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Meaning of resistance
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
resistance
n 1: 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" [syn: {resistance},
{opposition}]
2: any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
3: a material's opposition to the flow of electric current;
measured in ohms [syn: {electric resistance}, {electrical
resistance}, {impedance}, {resistance}, {resistivity}, {ohmic
resistance}]
4: the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the
enemy offered little resistance"
5: (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist
disease [syn: {immunity}, {resistance}]
6: 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"
7: a secret group organized to overthrow a government or
occupation force [syn: {underground}, {resistance}]
8: the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing
microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in
penicillin-resistant bacteria)
9: (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings
into conscious awareness
10: an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical
current [syn: {resistor}, {resistance}]
11: group action in opposition to those in power
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