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• resistance — Synonyms and related words: Charley, VC, Vietcong, acquired immunity, active immunity, alienation, antagonism, antibody, antigen, antipathy, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, artificial immunity, autism, autistic thinking, averseness, aversion,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Resistance —   The inherent characteristic of a material to inhibit the transfer of energy. In electrical conductors, electrical resistance results in the generation of heat. Electrical resistance is measured in Ohms. The heat transfer resistance properties… …   Energy terms

• resistance — I. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. an act or instance of resisting ; opposition b. a means of resisting 2. the power or capacity to resist: as a. the inherent ability of an organism to resist harmful influences (as disease, toxic agents, or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Resistance — Opposition to something, or the ability to withstand it. For example, some forms of staphylococcus are resistant to treatment with antibiotics. * * * 1. A force exerted in opposition to an active force. 2. The opposition in a conductor to the… …   Medical dictionary

• Equivalent series resistance — (ESR) is an effective resistance that is used to describe the resistive parts of the impedance of certain electrical components. Overview The theoretical treatment of devices such as capacitors and inductors tends to assume they are ideal or… …   Wikipedia

• Psychological resistance — is the phenomenon often encountered in clinical practice in which patients either directly or indirectly oppose changing their behavior or refuse to discuss, remember, or think about presumably clinically relevant experiences.Psychoanalytic… …   Wikipedia

• Contact resistance — The term contact resistance refers to the contribution to the total resistance of a material which comes from the electrical leads and connections as opposed to the intrinsic resistance, which is an inherent property, independent of the… …   Wikipedia

• Deep Green Resistance — (or Deep Green) is a perspective emerging from the current environmental movement that views mainstream environmental activism as being largely ineffective.[1] Contents 1 Beliefs 2 Tactics 3 Origins a …   Wikipedia

• Women's Tax Resistance League — The Women’s Tax Resistance League was a direct action group associated with the Women’s Social and Political Union that used tax resistance to protest the disenfranchisement of women during the British women’s suffrage movement. Dora Montefiore… …   Wikipedia

• internal resistance — The resistance inherent in a voltage source, such as a battery. The internal resistance of a battery is made up of several individual resistances, e.g., between the plates and the electrolyte, the plate resistances, the resistance of the… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• coefficient of resistance — Elasticity E las*tic i*ty ([=e] l[a^]s*t[i^]s [i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. [ e]lasticit[ e].] 1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English