Resistance vs. Capacitance

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

Example: ‘widespread resistance to the new urban development plans’; ‘the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics’;

(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.

(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.

An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

Example: ‘When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces.’;

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.

Example: ‘Unfold to us some warlike resistance.’;

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;

Example: ‘he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens’; ‘despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead’;

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;

Example: ‘the enemy offered little resistance’;

(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

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 refusal to accept or comply with something

Example: ‘they displayed a narrow-minded resistance to change’;

the use of force or violence to oppose someone or something

Example: ‘she put up no resistance to being led away’; ‘government forces were unable to crush guerrilla-style resistance’;

a secret organization resisting authority, especially in an occupied country

Example: ‘he went underground and joined the resistance’;

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

Example: ‘some of us have a lower resistance to cold than others’;

lack of sensitivity to a drug, insecticide, etc., especially as a result of continued exposure or genetic change

Example: ‘many insects show resistance to at least one chemical’;

the impeding or stopping effect exerted by one material thing on another

Example: ‘air resistance was reduced by streamlining’;

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.

a resistor or other circuit component which opposes the passage of an electric current.

The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F).

An element of an electrical circuit exhibiting capacitance.

an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored.

a measure of the ability of a capacitor to store electrical charge; the ratio of the charge on one plate of a capacitor to the potential difference between the plates.

an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored

an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge

Capacitance is the ratio of the amount of electric charge stored on a conductor to a difference in electric potential. There are two closely related notions of capacitance: self capacitance and mutual capacitance.