сопротивление

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Russian

Etymology

From сопротивля́ться (soprotivljátʹsja) +‎ -ение (-enije). The sense "electrical resistance" is a semantic loan from German Widerstand.

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Noun

сопротивле́ние (soprotivlénijen inan (genitive сопротивле́ния, nominative plural сопротивле́ния, genitive plural сопротивле́ний)

  1. resistance
  2. (physics) (electrical) resistance
  3. resistor

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References

  1. ^ Arapova, N. S. (2000) “сопротивление”, in Kalʹki v russkom jazyke poslepetrovskovo perioda. Opyt slovarja [Calques in Post-Petrine Russian. An Essay of a Dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 230