resistance

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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/

Noun

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

   Synonym: opposition

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.

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• resistance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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• ancestries, increasest, senatrices