reisistance

Noun

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
   • widespread resistance to the new urban development plans

   Synonyms:

   opposition

2. A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. Electrical resistance.
4. (dated) A resistor.
   • In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel […]1928, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Long Lines Dept, Principles of Electricity Applied to Telephone and Telegraph Work (page 52)
5. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
   • Alliance forces are stretched too thin right now to attempt to liberate the colony, but we've been doing what we can to covertly aid the local resistance.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Priority Mission: Eden Prime