resistance

1. n. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. n. A means or method of resisting; that which resists. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. n. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with Source: wordnet

6. n. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion Source: wordnet

7. n. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms Source: wordnet

8. n. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance Source: wordnet

9. n. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease Source: wordnet

10. n. the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents Source: wordnet

11. n. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force Source: wordnet

12. n. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) Source: wordnet

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