resistance
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resistance
- /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/
Rhymes with -ɪstəns
Where it comes from
From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia. Morphologically resist + -ance.
noun resistances · resistaunce · resistence
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist. widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
- A force that tends to oppose motion.
- Electrical resistance.
- A resistor. In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel […]
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement. Alliance forces are stretched too thin right now to attempt to liberate the colony, but we've been doing what we can to covertly aid the local resistance.
