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resistance
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resistance
n.
opposition, act of fighting against; act of withstanding the effects of; (Medicine) natural ability of an organism to resist disease (or bacteria or poisonous substances produced in diseases); quality of a conductor which resists an electrical current (Electricity); underground organization in an occupied country which fights against the occupying forces
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Resistance
Resistance may refer to:
Physics
- Electrical resistance, the measure of the degree to which a conductor opposes an electric current through that conductor.
- Friction,
- Drag (physics) ("air resistance"), fluid or gas forces opposing motion and flow
- Geological resistance, a measure of how well minerals resist erosive factors
- Hydraulic conductivity, the ease with which water can pore spaces or fractures in soil or rock
- Thermal resistance, a measure of difficulty of heat transfer through a substance
- Thermal conductivity, how well heat is conducted through a substance
- Thermal resistance in electronics, heat considerations in electronics design
- In materials science, the term is sometimes used for hardness
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French Resistance
The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War. Résistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas), who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The men and women of the Résistance came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including émigrés; academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including priests) and also citizens from the ranks of liberals, anarchists and communists.
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resistance
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) opposition
(hypernym) action
(hyponym) lockout
2. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
(hypernym) mechanical phenomenon
(hyponym) friction, rubbing
3. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
(synonym) electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistivity, ohmic resistance
(hypernym) electrical phenomenon
(hyponym) ohmage
4. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"
(hypernym) military action, action
(derivation) resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
5. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
(synonym) immunity
(hypernym) condition, status
(hyponym) acquired immunity
(classification) medicine, medical specialty
6. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
(synonym) underground
(hypernym) revolutionary group
(hyponym) Maquis
7. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
(hypernym) unresponsiveness
(classification) bacteria, bacterium
8. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
(hypernym) unwillingness
(classification) psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
9. an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
(synonym) resistor
(hypernym) electrical device
(hyponym) ballast resistor, ballast, barretter
(part-holonym) circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
10. group action in opposition to those in power
(hypernym) group action
(hyponym) confrontation, opposition
(derivation) resist, balk, baulk, jib
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résistance
nf.
resistance, stamina, strength; refractoriness, opposition; stand, durability, defiance
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resistance
n.
odpor; nevodivost; imunita; odolnost
