resistance
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
Example
“widespread resistance to the new urban development plans”
Other meanings
A force that tends to oppose motion.
electrical resistance.
Related words
- autoresistance
- corticoresistance
- cryoresistance
- multiresistance
- necroresistance
- osmoresistance
- oxidoresistance
- pentaresistance
- resistanceless
- seroresistance
- axis of resistance
- Lord's Resistance Army
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "resistentia".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “resistance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.