resistance

What does resistance mean?

• A valid word accepted in tournament Scrabble and Words With Friends play.

• noun

  an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

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  the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

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  the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

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  a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

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  the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

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  (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

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  a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

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  any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

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  group action in opposition to those in power

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  (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

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  the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

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