Resistance

What do we mean by resistance?

The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist. noun

A force that tends to oppose or retard motion. noun

An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation. noun

A process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences. noun

The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease. noun

The capacity of an organism or a tissue to withstand the effects of a harmful environmental agent. noun

The inability of a cell, tissue, or organ to respond to a certain hormone, drug, or other biologically active substance in a desired way. noun

The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy. noun

Thermal resistance. noun

In naval architecture, the reaction which a vessel opposes to an extraneous force by which it is dragged or driven through the water, and particularly to motion forward in the direction of the length of the vessel. noun

Resistance to the flow of current which occurs at the surface between conductors in contact, as in the coherer, or between the liquid and the terminal of an electrolyticcell, or between the heated gas in the electric are and the carbon. noun

The resistance offered by a dielectric to the passage of an electric current; the ohmic resistance of an insulating substance. noun

The act of resisting; opposition; antagonism. noun

The force exerted by a fluid or other medium to retard the motion of a body through it; more generally, any force which always acts in a direction opposite to the residual velocity, or to any component of it: as, resistance to shearing. noun

In electricity, that property of a conductor in virtue of which the passage of a current through it is accompanied by a dissipation of energy; the transformation of electric energy into heat. noun

Synonyms Hindrance, antagonism, check. See appose. noun

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. noun

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 noun

A means or method of resisting; that which resists. noun

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

A force that tends to oppose motion.

Electrical resistance.

An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

Words that are spelled similarly to resistance:
resistance, desistance, resistence, résistance, r�sistance, rsistance, assistance, remittance, resistant, persistance, existance, hesitance, irresistance, resiance, resistances, unresistance, renissance, insistance, renisance, resultance, resistate, desistence, resistente, reaisance, resistants.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word resistance:
antibiotics, gestapo, corrosion, resistant, voltage, occupation, nazi, liberation, movement, genes, bacteria, uprising, surrendered, thermal, movements, regime, fighter, hitler, wire, executed, invasion, arrested, casualties, communist, concentration, forces, rebellion.

Words that rhyme with resistance:
distance, existence, assistance, persistence, subsistence, insistence, consistence, coexistence, resistence, outdistance, angular distance, timeless existence, middle distance, social assistance, mean distance, logistic assistance, national assistance, skip distance, self-subsistence.

Adjectives that are often used to describe resistance:
high, least, passive, low, total, peripheral, electrical, little, internal, greater, strong, armed, effective, non, systemic, thermal, stubborn, pulmonary, further, frictional, specific, less, considerable, much, antibiotic, violent, active, negative, external, excellent, equivalent, higher, vascular, desperate, stiff, successful, fierce, serious, obstinate, german, initial, variable, popular, heroic, nonviolent, wear, relative, vigorous, bacterial, slight, ohmic, maximum, feeble, stout, massive, constant, electric, cross, antimicrobial, brave, mechanical, continued, gallant, apparent, negligible, dynamic, effectual, ultimate, superior.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective resistance:
capacitance, welding, capacity, ratings, training, temperature, coupled, measurement, thermometer, form, type, coils, inductance, start, skills, circuits, wire, welded, heating, voltage, coil, the, principles, reactance, oscillators, fighters, coupling, anniversary, variation, ratio, capacitor, pyrometer, movement, temptation, boxes, condenser, change, bridge, level, transfer, element, network, rated, tests, box, devices, rating, associated, strain, extinction, grounded, fer, governors, thermometers, switching, war, curve, measurements, bulb, operations, heater, ohm, frequency, tuned.

Consonant match to resistance:
resistence.

Words that sound like resistance:
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