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resistance🔊

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

📑 Synonyms: opposition
💬 Quotations
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. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him. The captive made no resistance […].

(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.

(physics) Electrical resistance.

(electronics, dated) A resistor.

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

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