Resistance
[rɪ'zɪst(ə)ns] or [rɪ'zɪstəns]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Opposition, hinderance, rebuff, check.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Opposition, hindrance,[See CHECK]
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Examples
- The armature resistance was 0. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Their extreme youth, and the purity of their attachment, made them yield with less resistance to the tyranny of circumstances. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No further resistance worthy of note was met with, until within a few miles of Savannah. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Soon encountering the rebel cavalry he met with a very stout resistance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If he had been successful at Buena Vista his troops would no doubt have made a more stubborn resistance at Cerro Gordo. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Besides these there are the compensating resistances and condensers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His reasoned-out resistances seemed for the moment so much less important than the question as to when Lily would receive his note! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But the disgust prevailed--all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The compensating resistances and condensers necessary for a duplex arrangement are shown in the diagram. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But two voltages of equal value do not give equal currents unless the resistances met by the currents are equal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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