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Resistance

/ɹɪˈzɪstəns/

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

📖 Definitions of "Resistance"

noun
  1. 1

    The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

    "the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics"

  2. 2

    A force that tends to oppose motion.

  3. 3

    Electrical resistance.

  4. 4

    An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

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