Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
resistance. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
resistance, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
resistance in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
resistance you have here. The definition of the word
resistance will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
resistance, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.
Morphologically resist + -ance.
Pronunciation
Noun
resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
- Synonym: opposition
1695, John Kettlewell, Chriſtianity, a Doctrine of the Cross: or, Paſſive Obedience under any Pretended Invaſion of Legal Rights and Liberties, page 89:[…] this Autority of his Perſon, doth notwithſtanding lay on us an Obligation, of keeping under his Obedience, and making no warlike Reſiſtance.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- (physics) Electrical resistance.
- (electronics, dated) A resistor.
- 1928, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Long Lines Dept, Principles of Electricity Applied to Telephone and Telegraph Work (page 52)
- In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Priority Mission: Eden Prime:Alliance forces are stretched too thin right now to attempt to liberate the colony, but we've been doing what we can to covertly aid the local resistance.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
act of resisting
- Albanian: rezistencë (sq) f, qëndresë (sq) f
- Arabic: مُقَاوَمَة f (muqāwama)
- Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʻyun)
- Asturian: resistencia f
- Azerbaijani: müqavimət (az)
- Bashkir: ҡаршылыҡ (qarşılıq)
- Belarusian: супраціўле́нне n (supraciŭljénnje), супраці́ў m (supracíŭ)
- Bulgarian: съпротивле́ние (bg) n (sǎprotivlénie)
- Burmese: ခုခံခြင်း (hku.hkamhkrang:)
- Catalan: resistència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 抵抗 (zh) (dǐkàng), 反抗 (zh) (fǎnkàng), 抵抗力 (zh) (dǐkànglì) (against disease)
- Czech: odpor (cs) m
- Danish: modstand c
- Dutch: weerstand (nl) m, verzet (nl) n
- Estonian: vastupanu
- Finnish: vastarinta (fi), vastustuskyky (fi)
- French: résistance (fr) f
- Galician: resistencia f
- Georgian: წინააღმდეგობა (c̣inaaɣmdegoba)
- German: Widerstand (de) m
- Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
- Ancient: ἀντίστασις f (antístasis)
- Hebrew: הִתְנַגְּדוּת f (hitnag'dút)
- Hindi: विरोध (hi) m (virodh), प्रतिरोध (hi) m (pratirodh), मुक़ाबला m (muqāblā)
- Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
- Indonesian: penentangan (id)
- Italian: resistenza (it) f
- Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (ていこう, teikō), 反抗 (ja) (はんこう, hankō)
- Kazakh: қарсылық (qarsylyq)
- Khmer: កំណៀច (km) (kɑmniəc)
- Korean: 저항(抵抗) (ko) (jeohang), 반항(反抗) (ko) (banhang)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: berxwedan (ku)
- Kyrgyz: каршылык (ky) (karşılık)
- Lao: ຄວາມຕ້ານທານ (khuām tān thān)
- Latvian: pretestība f, pretspēks m, pretspars m
- Lithuanian: pasipriešinimas m, priešinimasis m
- Luxembourgish: Widderstand (lb) m
- Macedonian: отпор m (otpor)
- Malay: rintangan (ms), penentangan
- Malayalam: പ്രതിരോധം (ml) (pratirōdhaṁ), ചെറുക്കൽ (ml) (ceṟukkal)
- Maori: ātetenga
- Middle English: resistence
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: эсэргүүцэл (mn) (esergüücel)
- Mongolian: ᠡᠰᠡᠷᠭᠦᠴᠡᠯ (esergüčel)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: motstand m
- Nynorsk: motstand m
- Old English: anbyrdnes f, andwig n
- Pashto: مقاومت m (moqāwemát)
- Persian: مقاومت (fa) (moqâvemat), مقابله (fa) (moqâbele)
- Polish: opór (pl) m, sprzeciw (pl) m
- Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
- Romanian: rezistare (ro) f, opunere (ro) f, rezistență (ro) f
- Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije), отпо́р (ru) m (otpór) (rebuff)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀тпор m
- Roman: òtpor (sh) m
- Sicilian: risistenza f
- Slovak: odpor m
- Slovene: odpor (sl) m
- Spanish: resistencia (es) f, oposición (es) f
- Swedish: motstånd (sv) n
- Tajik: муқовимат (tg) (muqovimat), муқобилат (tg) (muqobilat), зиддият (ziddiyat)
- Tatar: каршылык (tt) (qarşılıq)
- Thai: การต่อต้าน (th) (gaan-dtɔ̀ɔ-dtâan)
- Turkish: mukavemet (tr), direnç (tr), rezistans (tr)
- Turkmen: garşylyk
- Ukrainian: о́пір m (ópir), спро́тив m (sprótyv)
- Urdu: مزاحمت f (muzāhimat), مقابله m (muqāblā)
- Uyghur: قارشىلىق (qarshiliq)
- Uzbek: qarshilik (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự chống cự, sự đề kháng
|
force that tends to oppose motion
underground organization struggling for liberation
Translations to be checked
References
Anagrams