Found 3 items, similar to Resistance.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: resistance daga, kebajaan, perlawanan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: resistance 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: 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, 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] 6: a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force [syn: underground] 7: the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) 8: (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness 9: an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current [syn: resistor] 10: group action in opposition to those in power
English → English (gcide) Definition: Resistance Resistance \Re*sist"ance\ (-ans), n. [F. r['e]sistance, LL. resistentia, fr. resistens, -entis, p. pr. See Resist.] 1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. [1913 Webster] When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. --1. Macc. xi. 38. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physics) 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. [1913 Webster] 3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists. [1913 Webster] Unfold to us some warlike resistance. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. (Elec.) 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. [1913 Webster] Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combined in various ways to afford more or less resistance. Resistance coil (Elec.), a coil of wire introduced into an electric circuit to increase the resistance. Solid of least resistance (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume. [1913 Webster]