Resistance

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈzɪstÉ™ns/

Alternative forms

• resistaunce obsolete

Origin

From French résistance.

Full definition of resistance

Noun

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 19, When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. …. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
2. widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
   the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics
3. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
4. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
5. An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

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