Resistance vs. Resistor

Resistancenoun

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

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(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.

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(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.

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

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The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

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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.

Resistancenoun

A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

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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.

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the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with;

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any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

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a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

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the military action of resisting the enemy's advance;

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

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a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

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the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

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(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

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an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

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group action in opposition to those in power

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the refusal to accept or comply with something

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the use of force or violence to oppose someone or something

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a secret organization resisting authority, especially in an occupied country

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the underground movement formed in France during the Second World War to fight the German occupying forces and the Vichy government.

Resistancenoun

the ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely

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

Resistancenoun

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

Resistancenoun

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.

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

Resistornoun

One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.

Resistornoun

An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.

Resistornoun

an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

Resistor

A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element. In electronic circuits, resistors are used to reduce current flow, adjust signal levels, to divide voltages, bias active elements, and terminate transmission lines, among other uses.