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";
the military action of resisting the enemy''s advance; "the enemy offered little resistance";
group action in opposition to those in power;
an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current;
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness;
the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria);
a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force;
any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion;
a material''s opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms;
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease;
