resistance

About 58.72 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

   widespread resistance to the new urban development plans

2. noun A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. noun Electrical resistance.
4. noun A resistor.
5. noun An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

Similar words

resistor opposition impedance underground ohmic resistance electrical resistance resistivity electric resistance resisting resistant

Often followed by

to of and in is was from against by

Word family

Resistance Resistances resistances