resistance

See also: résistance

English

Alternative forms

• resistaunce (obsolete)
• resistence (rare, see usage notes)

Etymology

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.

Morphologically resist +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

1. 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^[1], 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

2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. (physics) Electrical resistance.
4. (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 […]

5. 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

• air resistance
• antibioresistance
• antiresistance
• arc resistance
• chemoresistance
• collision resistance
• consumer resistance
• coresistance
• counterresistance
• cross-resistance
• cross resistance
• customer resistance
• cytoresistance
• elastoresistance
• electrical resistance
• electroresistance
• heteroresistance
• hyperresistance
• immunoresistance
• impact resistance
• insulin resistance
• irresistance
• Kapitza resistance
• magnetoresistance
• monoresistance
• nonresistance
• ohmic resistance
• ozone resistance
• panresistance
• pharmacoresistance
• photoresistance
• piezoresistance
• polyresistance
• pre-image resistance
• radioresistance
• rolling resistance
• sales resistance
• specific resistance
• strong collision resistance
• tax resistance
• tear resistance
• thermoresistance
• thromboresistance
• tracking resistance
• transresistance
• unresistance

 

Derived terms

• line of least resistance
• Lord's Resistance Army
• nonresistance
• passive resistance
• path of least resistance
• piece de resistance
• pitting resistance equivalent number
• resistance arm
• resistance band
• resistance box
• resistance coil
• resistance distance
• resistance frame
• resistance thermometer
• resistance training

 

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

• Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʻyun)
• Asturian: resistencia f
• Azerbaijani: müqavimət (az)
• Bulgarian: съпротивле́ние (bg) n (sǎprotivlénie)
• Catalan: resistència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阻力 (zh) (zǔlì)

• Danish: modstand c
• Finnish: vastus (fi)
• Galician: resistencia f
• Georgian: უკუქმედება (uḳukmedeba)
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Indonesian: berlawanan arus
• Italian: resistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 抵抗力 (ja) (ていこうりょく, teikōryoku)
• Korean: 저항력(抵抗力) (ko) (jeohangnyeok)
• Malay: rintangan (ms), hambatan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motkraft m or f

• Polish: opór (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije)
• Sicilian: risistenza f
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Vietnamese: sức cản

shortened form of electrical resistance

• Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電阻／电阻 (zh) (diànzǔ)

• Czech: odpor (cs) m
• Danish: modstand c, resistans (da) c
• Finnish: resistanssi (fi), vastus (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia f
• Georgian: წინაღობა (c̣inaɣoba)
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Icelandic: viðnám n, mótstaða f
• Indonesian: resistansi (id)
• Italian: resistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 抵抗 (ja) (ていこう, teikō)
• Korean: 저항(抵抗) (ko) (jeohang)
• Latvian: pretestība f
• Malayalam: പ്രതിരോധം (ml) (pratirōdhaṁ), വൈദ്യുതപ്രതിരോധം (vaidyutapratirōdhaṁ)
• Maori: parehiko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motstand m, resistans m

• Polish: opór (pl) m, rezystancja f, oporność f
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije)
• Sicilian: risistenza f
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: resistans (sv) c
• Tagalog: sagwil

underground organization struggling for liberation

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: դիմադրություն (hy) (dimadrutʻyun)
• Asturian: resistencia f
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: съпроти́ва (bg) f (sǎprotíva)
• Catalan: resistència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抵抗運動／抵抗运动 (dǐkàng yùndòng)

• Czech: odboj (cs) m
• Danish: modstandsbevægelse c
• Dutch: verzet (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vastarintaliike (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f
• Galician: resistencia f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)

  Ancient: ἀντίστασις f (antístasis)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ellenállás (hu)
• Indonesian: kelompok pemberontak
• Italian: resistenza (it) f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Middle English: resistence
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motstandsbevegelse m

• Polish: ruch oporu (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistência (pt) f
• Romanian: rezistența f
• Russian: сопротивле́ние (ru) n (soprotivlénije)
• Sicilian: risistenza f
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f
• Swedish: motståndsrörelse (sv) c
• Tibetan: བཙན་རྒོལ་གསང་ཚོགས (btsan rgol gsang tshogs)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} résistance (fr)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} resistantia

References

• resistance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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