Dictionary Entry
resistance
resistance is a 10-letter English word with 15 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 15 senses
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- 1noun
The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
- 2noun
The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.
- 3noun
A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
- 4noun
A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.
- 5noun
the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
"he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"
"despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"
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- 6noun
the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
"the enemy offered little resistance"
- 7noun
group action in opposition to those in power
- 8noun
an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
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- 9noun
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
- 10noun
the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
- 11noun
a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
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- 12noun
any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
- 13noun
a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
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- 14noun
the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
"these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"
- 15noun
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
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