Resistance ¹

Definition: The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

Resistance ²

Definition: 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.

Resistance ³

Definition: A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

Resistance ⁴

Definition: 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.

resistance ⁵

Definition: 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"

resistance ⁶

Definition: the military action of resisting the enemy''s advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"

resistance ⁷

Definition: group action in opposition to those in power

resistance ⁸

Definition: an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

resistance ⁹

Definition: (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

resistance ¹⁰

Definition: the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

resistance ¹¹

Definition: a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

resistance ¹²

Definition: any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

resistance ¹³

Definition: a material''s opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

resistance ¹⁴

Definition: (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease