Thesaurus: resistance

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1. n. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
4. n. 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.
5. n. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
6. n. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
7. n. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
8. n. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
9. n. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
10. n. the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
11. n. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
12. n. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)