Resistance

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; 'the enemy offered little resistance'.

(noun.) group action in opposition to those in power.

(noun.) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness.

(noun.) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria).

(noun.) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion.

(noun.) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; 'these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog'.

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• The armature resistance was 0. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The carbon being only slightly compressed will offer considerable resistance to the flow of current from the local battery, and therefore the signal on the local sounder will be weak. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The latter, in each case, has in its circuit a resistance, R, to compensate for the resistance of the main line, so that there shall be no inequalities in the circuits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Their extreme youth, and the purity of their attachment, made them yield with less resistance to the tyranny of circumstances. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• No further resistance worthy of note was met with, until within a few miles of Savannah. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At any rate he sickened, and after opposing to the malady a taciturn resistance for a day or two, was obliged to keep his chamber. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Soon encountering the rebel cavalry he met with a very stout resistance. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In falling from different heights toward this commo n focus the particles cannot have such perfect equality of resistance that no la teral movements should be set up. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• If he had been successful at Buena Vista his troops would no doubt have made a more stubborn resistance at Cerro Gordo. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A fuse is made by combining a number of metals in such a way that the resulting substance has a low melting point and a high electrical resistance. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Besides these there are the compensating resistances and condensers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His reasoned-out resistances seemed for the moment so much less important than the question as to when Lily would receive his note! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But the disgust prevailed--all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The compensating resistances and condensers necessary for a duplex arrangement are shown in the diagram. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It would have been impossible, with any approach to regularity, to have moved hands of that size, exposed as they were to the wind, unless the pendulum had been independent of such resistances. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• But two voltages of equal value do not give equal currents unless the resistances met by the currents are equal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The hands of the clock are also moved by electro-magnets, by which means the impelling forces and the resistances encountered by the pendulum are always constant. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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