Resistances is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESISTANCES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• RESISTANCE, 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 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 RESISTANCES

resistance12

Words that contain RESISTANCES

irresistances15 nonresistances16 magnetoresistances23

How to use RESISTANCES in a sentence

• When no such resistances exist, movement must be perpetual, as is the case with the heavenly bodies, which are moving in a void.
• By the resistances to life is meant whatever tends to make individual existence more difficult of support.
• We may now examine somewhat more minutely the character of the resistances which thus, for a thousand years, kept the population of Europe stationary.
• The circuit of the opposing battery was permanently completed, independently of the transmitting apparatus, through both branch conductors and artificial resistances.
• The size of the spark was regulated by resistances in primary circuit.
• The switchboard forms one side of a closed wooden case or cupboard, with sufficient room for a man to enter and adjust the resistances or switches for each lamp.
• The resistances in our systems of brain-paths are altered.
• Kohlrausch for measuring resistances by means of induction currents, and a whole series of accessory instruments.
• Our elements will work for a hundred hours through low resistances, and can be worked at any moment, after several months, for example.
• Every one has to move onward and upward through ranks of resistances.
• All his various resistances were brought into concerted action when at last the teacher in Swedish ordered him to prepare two brief original compositions on quite simple themes.
• He suffered tortures with the impatience of a man who has not been accustomed to resistances.
• Our whole notion of life at present is such as to set up resistances to its inflow.
• A granular-carbon transmitter may vary between resistances of 5 to 50 ohms while transmitting a particular tone, having the lower resistance when its diaphragm is driven inward.

Similar words containing SISTANCE without suffix s and without prefix re

assistance12 desistance13 resistance12 assistances13 desistances14 irresistance14 irresistances15 nonresistance15 nonresistances16 magnetoresistance22 magnetoresistances23

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