"resistance" Definition

Definitions for the word "resistance" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 resisting; refusal to comply. 2 power of resisting. 3 ability to withstand disease. 4 impeding or stopping effect exerted by one thing on another. 5 physics property of hindering the conduction of electricity, heat, etc. 6 resistor. 7 secret organization resisting a régime, esp. In an occupied country. resistant adj. [latin: related to *resist]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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