resistance
IPA: rɪzˈɪstʌns
noun
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- (physics) Electrical resistance.
- (electronics, dated) A resistor.
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
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Examples of "resistance" in Sentences
- The reference to resistance is code for Hamas and Hizbullah to prepare to get active again.
- The term resistance is often used to encompass both violent and nonviolent means of struggle.
- In this case the difference in resistance is huge and the current through any human will be negligent.
- He claimed that the term resistance is not even mentioned in the Taif Accord, "contrary to the opposition's claims."
- This ‘meandering’ of the electrons makes them more likely to hit an atom of the metal, and the resistance is therefore increased:
- PAS, the chemotherapeutic remedy detected by the Swedish biochemist Lehmann, the development of streptomycin resistance is delayed.
- The OHM, as a unit of measurement, equals a unit of _resistance_ that is equivalent to the resistance of a hundred feet of copper wire the size of a pin.
- This resistance is also widespread among private landowners, and, according to an AP article a few weeks ago, "About the same time, the government offered to pay some property owners $3,000 in exchange for permission to conduct surveys for the project."
- I have never wanted to leave the Island; I have believed (romantically, I am sure) that I am more useful here, that I belong to this place and that my resistance is also my own way of paying my homage and my respect to the Cuba that we we all want, including those who rebelled that day.
- It is all of that, because, again, when the population all of a sudden shifts from either tacitly accepting or maybe even actively supporting Al Qaeda and seeing them cloaked in the term resistance, and then seeing them for what they are, which is the purveyors of extremist ideology, indiscriminate violence and even oppressive practices.
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