resistance
English
/ɹɪˈzɪstəns/
noun
Definitions
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- (physics) electrical Electrical resistance.
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English resistence derived from Old French resistence derived from Latin resistentia.
Origin
Latin
resistentia
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiresistance English
- autoresistance English
- chemoradioresistance English
- chemoresistance English
- coresistance English
- corticoresistance English
- counterresistance English
- cross-resistance English
- cryoresistance English
- cytoresistance English
- elastoresistance English
- electroresistance English
- heteroresistance English
- hyperresistance English
- immunoresistance English
- irresistance English
- magnetoresistance English
- monoresistance English
- multiresistance English
- nonresistance English
- osmoresistance English
- oxidoresistance English
- panresistance English
- pharmacoresistance English
- photoresistance English
- piezoresistance English
- polyresistance English
- radiochemoresistance English
- radioresistance English
- resistanceless English
- seroresistance English
- thermoresistance English
- thromboresistance English
- unresistance English
- resistentia Latin
- rezisztencia Hungarian
- resistenza Italian
- résistance French
- resistencia Spanish, Castilian
- resistência Portuguese
- resisten Middle English
- resistence Middle English
- resistence Old French
- resistència Catalan, Valencian
- resistencia Asturian
- coresistance
- irresistance
- unresistance
- panresistance
- nonresistance
- antiresistance
- seroresistance
- cryoresistance
- osmoresistance
- resistanceless
- polyresistance
- autoresistance
- cytoresistance
- monoresistance
- piezoresistance
- chemoresistance
- oxidoresistance
- photoresistance
- hyperresistance
- radioresistance
- multiresistance
- cross-resistance
- heteroresistance
- elastoresistance
- thermoresistance
- immunoresistance
- counterresistance
- thromboresistance
- electroresistance
- magnetoresistance
- corticoresistance
- pharmacoresistance
- radiochemoresistance
- chemoradioresistance