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Resistance   /rɪzˈɪstəns/  /rizˈɪstəns/   Listen
noun
Resistance  n.  
1.
The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. "When King Demetrius saw that... no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces."
2.
(Physics) 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.
3.
A means or method of resisting; that which resists. "Unfold to us some warlike resistance."
4.
(Elec.) 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.
Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combined in various ways to afford more or less resistance.
Resistance coil (Elec.), a coil of wire introduced into an electric circuit to increase the resistance.
Solid of least resistance (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume.





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"Resistance" Quotes from Famous Books



... of an hour, the cocoanut trees and the low-lying land were visible from the deck. The feeling that the end of the PYRENEES' resistance was imminent weighed heavily on everybody. Captain Davenport had the three boats lowered and dropped short astern, a man in each to keep them apart. The Pyrenees closely skirted the shore, the surf-whitened atoll a bare two ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... Don't. Don't touch me!" she cried, rising in turn, for resistance. She kept her mind fixed upon the expected rewards of her project, and so ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... rascal offered no resistance. Instead, he came down the steps backward, and fell on his back on the sidewalk, his hat rolling ...
— The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview • Ralph Bonehill
... as much, Sir Gervaise—I thought your secretary could never lean to the doctrine of 'passive obedience and non-resistance.' That's a principle which would hardly ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... to close quarters we may premise a question. If the carefully prepared sermon cost as little trouble as the extemporary effort, would the world ever have heard of this discussion? Oh! the fatal tendency to move on the lines of least resistance, to glide on the downward slope, and when we have reached the bottom to manufacture arguments and apologies justifying the course we selected! When the question is probed to the bottom you will find that all advocacy ...
— The Young Priest's Keepsake • Michael Phelan


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