Resistance
[rɪ'zɪst(ə)ns] or [rɪ'zɪstəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; 'the enemy offered little resistance'.
(noun.) group action in opposition to those in power.
(noun.) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness.
(noun.) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria).
(noun.) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion.
(noun.) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; 'these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog'.
校對:诺艾尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
(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.
(n.) A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
(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.
阿诺德手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Opposition, hinderance, rebuff, check.
奥古斯都手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Opposition, hindrance,[See CHECK]
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例句/造句/用法:
- The armature resistance was 0. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The carbon being only slightly compressed will offer considerable resistance to the flow of current from the local battery, and therefore the signal on the local sounder will be weak. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The latter, in each case, has in its circuit a resistance, R, to compensate for the resistance of the main line, so that there shall be no inequalities in the circuits. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Their extreme youth, and the purity of their attachment, made them yield with less resistance to the tyranny of circumstances. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- No further resistance worthy of note was met with, until within a few miles of Savannah. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At any rate he sickened, and after opposing to the malady a taciturn resistance for a day or two, was obliged to keep his chamber. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Soon encountering the rebel cavalry he met with a very stout resistance. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In falling from different heights toward this commo n focus the particles cannot have such perfect equality of resistance that no la teral movements should be set up. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If he had been successful at Buena Vista his troops would no doubt have made a more stubborn resistance at Cerro Gordo. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A fuse is made by combining a number of metals in such a way that the resulting substance has a low melting point and a high electrical resistance. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Besides these there are the compensating resistances and condensers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- His reasoned-out resistances seemed for the moment so much less important than the question as to when Lily would receive his note! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But the disgust prevailed--all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The compensating resistances and condensers necessary for a duplex arrangement are shown in the diagram. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It would have been impossible, with any approach to regularity, to have moved hands of that size, exposed as they were to the wind, unless the pendulum had been independent of such resistances. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- But two voltages of equal value do not give equal currents unless the resistances met by the currents are equal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The hands of the clock are also moved by electro-magnets, by which means the impelling forces and the resistances encountered by the pendulum are always constant. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
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