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Meaning of resistance

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  resistance
      n 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" [syn: {resistance},
           {opposition}]
      2: any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
      3: a material's opposition to the flow of electric current;
         measured in ohms [syn: {electric resistance}, {electrical
         resistance}, {impedance}, {resistance}, {resistivity}, {ohmic
         resistance}]
      4: the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the
         enemy offered little resistance"
      5: (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist
         disease [syn: {immunity}, {resistance}]
      6: the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful
         environmental agents; "these trees are widely planted because
         of their resistance to salt and smog"
      7: a secret group organized to overthrow a government or
         occupation force [syn: {underground}, {resistance}]
      8: the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing
         microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in
         penicillin-resistant bacteria)
      9: (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings
         into conscious awareness
      10: an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical
          current [syn: {resistor}, {resistance}]
      11: group action in opposition to those in power

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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