resistance

resistance

See also: résistance

English

Alternative forms

• resistaunce (obsolete)
• resistence (rare, see usage notes)

Etymology

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.

Morphologically resist +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/

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Noun

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

   Synonym: opposition

   • 1695, John Kettlewell, Chriſtianity, a Doctrine of the Cross: or, Paſſive Obedience under any Pretended Invaſion of Legal Rights and Liberties‎, page 89:

     […] this Autority of his Perſon, doth notwithſtanding lay on us an Obligation, of keeping under his Obedience, and making no warlike Reſiſtance.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎:

     When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.

   widespread resistance to the new urban development plans

   the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics

2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. (physics) electrical resistance.
4. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Priority Mission: Eden Prime:

     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.

Hypernyms

• air resistance
• antibioresistance
• antiresistance
• chemoresistance
• collision resistance
• coresistance
• counterresistance
• cytoresistance
• elastoresistance
• electrical resistance
• electroresistance
• heteroresistance
• hyperresistance
• immunoresistance
• impact resistance
• irresistance
• Kapitza resistance
• magnetoresistance
• monoresistance
• nonresistance
• ohmic resistance
• ozone resistance
• panresistance
• pharmacoresistance
• photoresistance
• piezoresistance
• polyresistance
• pre-image resistance
• radioresistance
• rolling resistance
• strong collision resistance
• tax resistance
• thermoresistance
• thromboresistance
• transresistance
• unresistance

 

Derived terms

• Lord's Resistance Army
• passive resistance
• resistance distance
• resistance frame
• resistance training

 

Translations

act of resisting

Albanian: rezistencë (sq) f, qëndresë (sq) f Arabic: مُقَاوَمَة‎ f (muqāwama), مُقَابَلَة‎ f (muqābala) Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʿyun) Asturian: resistencia f Azerbaijani: müqavimət (az) Bashkir: ҡаршылыҡ (qarşılıq) Belarusian: супраціўле́нне n (supraciŭljénnje), супраці́ў m (supracíŭ) Bulgarian: съпротивле́ние (bg) n (sǎprotivlénie) Burmese: ခုခံခြင်း (hku.hkamhkrang:) Catalan: resistència (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 抵抗 (zh) (dǐkàng), 反抗 (zh) (fǎnkàng), 抵抗力 (zh) (dǐkànglì) (against disease) Czech: odpor (cs) m Danish: modstand c Dutch: weerstand (nl) m, verzet (nl) n Estonian: vastupanu Finnish: vastarinta (fi), vastustuskyky (fi) French: résistance (fr) f Galician: resistencia f Georgian: წინააღმდეგობა (c̣inaaɣmdegoba) German: Widerstand (de) m Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi) Ancient: ἀντίστασις f (antístasis) Hebrew: הִתְנַגְּדוּת‎ f (hitnag'dút) Hindi: विरोध (hi) m (virodh), प्रतिरोध (hi) m (pratirodh), मुक़ाबला m (muqāblā) Hungarian: ellenállás (hu) Indonesian: penentangan (id) Italian: resistenza (it) f Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (ていこう, teikō), 反抗 (ja) (はんこう, hankō) Kazakh: қарсылық (qarsylyq) Khmer: កំណៀច (km) (kɑmniəc) Korean: 저항(抵抗) (ko) (jeohang), 반항(反抗) (ko) (banhang) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: berxwedan (ku) Kyrgyz: каршылык (ky) (karşılık) Lao: ຄວາມຕ້ານທານ (khuām tān thān) Latvian: pretestība f, pretspēks m, pretspars m Lithuanian: pasipriešinimas m, priešinimasis m Luxembourgish: Widderstand (lb) m Macedonian: отпор m (otpor) Malay: rintangan (ms), penentangan Malayalam: പ്രതിരോധം (ml) (pratirōdhaṃ), ചെറുക്കൽ (ml) (ceṟukkal) Middle English: resistence Mongolian: Cyrillic: эсэргүүцэл (mn) (esergüücel) Mongolian: ᠡᠰᠡᠷᠭᠦᠴᠡᠯ (esergüčel) Norwegian: Bokmål: motstand m Nynorsk: motstand m Old English: anbyrdnes f, andwig n Pashto: مقاومت‎ m (moqāwemát) Persian: مقاومت‎ (fa) (moqâvemat), مقابله‎ (fa) (moqâbele) Polish: opór (pl) m, sprzeciw (pl) m Portuguese: resistência (pt) f Romanian: rezistare (ro) f, opunere (ro) f, rezistență (ro) f Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije), отпо́р (ru) m (otpór) (rebuff) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀тпор m Roman: òtpor (sh) m Sicilian: risistenza f Slovak: odpor m Slovene: odpor (sl) m Spanish: resistencia (es) f Swedish: motstånd (sv) n Tajik: муқовимат (tg) (muqovimat), муқобилат (tg) (muqobilat), зиддият (ziddiyat) Tatar: каршылык (tt) (qarşılıq) Thai: การต่อต้าน (th) (gaan-dtɔ̀ɔ-dtâan) Turkish: mukavemet (tr), direnç (tr) Turkmen: garşylyk Ukrainian: о́пір m (ópir), спро́тив m (sprótyv) Urdu: مزاحمت‎ f (muzāhimat), مقابله‎ m (muqāblā) Uyghur: قارشىلىق‎ (qarshiliq) Uzbek: qarshilik (uz) Vietnamese: sự chống cự, sự đề kháng

force that tends to oppose motion

Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʿyun) Asturian: resistencia f Azerbaijani: müqavimət (az) Bulgarian: съпротивле́ние (bg) n (sǎprotivlénie) Catalan: resistència (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 阻力 (zh) (zǔlì) Danish: modstand c Finnish: vastus (fi) Galician: resistencia f Georgian: უკუქმედება (uḳukmedeba) German: Widerstand (de) m Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi) Hungarian: ellenállás (hu) Indonesian: berlawanan arus Italian: resistenza (it) f Japanese: 抵抗力 (ja) (ていこうりょく, teikōryoku) Korean: 저항력(抵抗力) (ko) (jeohangnyeok) Malay: rintangan (ms), hambatan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: motkraft m or f Polish: opór (pl) m Portuguese: resistência (pt) f Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije) Sicilian: risistenza f Spanish: resistencia (es) f Vietnamese: sức cản

shortened form of electrical resistance

Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʿyun) Chinese: Mandarin: 電阻／电阻 (zh) (diànzǔ) Czech: odpor (cs) m Danish: modstand c, resistans (da) c Finnish: resistanssi (fi), vastus (fi) French: résistance (fr) f Galician: resistencia f Georgian: წინაღობა (c̣inaɣoba) German: Widerstand (de) m Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi) Hungarian: ellenállás (hu) Icelandic: viðnám n, mótstaða f Indonesian: resistansi (id), resistansi (id), resistansi (id), resistansi (id) Italian: resistenza (it) f Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (ていこう, teikō) Korean: 저항(抵抗) (ko) (jeohang) Latvian: pretestība f Malayalam: പ്രതിരോധം (ml) (pratirōdhaṃ), വൈദ്യുതപ്രതിരോധം (vaidyutapratirōdhaṃ) Maori: parehiko Norwegian: Bokmål: motstand m, resistans m Polish: opór (pl) m, rezystancja f, oporność f Portuguese: resistência (pt) f Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije) Sicilian: risistenza f Spanish: resistencia (es) f Swedish: resistans (sv) c Tagalog: sagwil

underground organization struggling for liberation

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʿyun) Asturian: resistencia f Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: съпроти́ва (bg) f (sǎprotíva) Catalan: resistència (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 抵抗運動／抵抗运动 (dǐkàng yùndòng) Czech: odboj (cs) m Danish: modstandsbevægelse c Dutch: verzet (nl) n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: vastarintaliike (fi) French: résistance (fr) f Galician: resistencia f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Widerstand (de) m Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi) Ancient: ἀντίστασις f (antístasis) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: ellenállás (hu) Indonesian: kelompok pemberontak Italian: resistenza (it) f Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Middle English: resistence Norwegian: Bokmål: motstandsbevegelse m Polish: ruch oporu (pl) m Portuguese: resistência (pt) f Romanian: rezistența f Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije) Sicilian: risistenza f Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: resistencia (es) f Swedish: motståndsrörelse (sv) c Tibetan: བཙན་རྒོལ་གསང་ཚོགས (btsan rgol gsang tshogs) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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French: (please verify) résistance (fr) Latin: (please verify) resistantia

References

• resistance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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