Resistance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESISTANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or power of resisting
• the refusal to accept or comply with something
• the use of force or violence to oppose someone or something
• a secret organization resisting authority, especially in an occupied country
• the underground movement formed in France during the Second World War to fight the German occupying forces and the Vichy government.
• the ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely
• lack of sensitivity to a drug, insecticide, etc., especially as a result of continued exposure or genetic change
• the impeding or stopping effect exerted by one material thing on another
• a resistor or other circuit component which opposes the passage of an electric current.
• The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
• 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.
• A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
• 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.
• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
• a material\'s opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
• the military action of resisting the enemy\'s advance
• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
• group action in opposition to those in power
• the degree to which a substance or device opposes the passage of an electric current, causing energy dissipation. By Ohm's law resistance (measured in ohms) is equal to the voltage divided by the current.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act or instance of resisting; opposition; a means of resisting

Words related to RESISTANCE

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Words that contain RESISTANCE

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How to use RESISTANCE in a sentence

• For this reason Caesar had resolved to make resistance, if they attacked him, but not to be the first to provoke the battle.
• The Neapolitan government deemed all further resistance on the island of Sicily useless, and recalled its troops for the defence of Naples.
• Treppass says, the present system of the court is resistance to all innovation, to all strangers.
• However, he directed his greater efforts against those who had sallied from the town, and, without much resistance, drove them back within the walls.
• From this moment I grew quite convinced that her resistance was only a question of time.
• There was felt to be something almost approaching to resistance in what he had said and done already.
• If now, in spite of resistance, the original tendency continues, effort makes its appearance, and along with effort, strain or squeeze.
• One of them was the Rajah of Bhartpur, a state well-known in the history of India by its long successful resistance of the British treaty.
• By such simple means, and without resistance, as it might be, did I recover the possession of my ship, the Dawn.
• On the platform Blanco made some slight resistance.
• Glass, which breaks at a blow, is, nevertheless, capable of offering considerable resistance.
• The mechanical resistance is transferred elsewhere.
• The three English armies amounting to above twenty thousand men, it was impossible to make any further resistance.
• In this case the resistance of the external circuit equals the interior resistance of the pile.
• I knew that all armed resistance had been broken, and as these sounds of terror increased, an idea of what might be imminent crossed my mind.
• It stood almost upright now, and offering no resistance with its bulk, was sinking rapidly.
• And the law is, that every definite action is conditioned upon a definite resistance, and is impossible without it.
• March up to Table, determined not to perish without a spirited resistance.
• With a common and desperate effort, they overcame all resistance.
• But for the present her power of resistance was dead.
• The natives were too much terrified to offer resistance, and Eloff, leaving the greater part of his force to hold the location, advanced upon the town.

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