resistance

• a material´s opposition to the flow of electric current
• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
• the military action of resisting the enemy´s advance
• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
• group action in opposition to those in power
• The act of resisting
• The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure
• A means or method of resisting
• 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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