resistance
英 [rɪ'zɪst(ə)ns]
美[rɪ'zɪstəns]
英英释意
- 1. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with;
- "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"
- "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"
- 2. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
- 3. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
- 4. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance;
- "the enemy offered little resistance"
- 5. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- 6. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- 7. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
- 8. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
- 9. an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
- 10. group action in opposition to those in power