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re·sis·tance  audio  (r-zstns) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist.
  2. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.
  3. often Resistance An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.
  4. Psychology A process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences.
  5. Biology
    1. The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease.
    2. The capacity of an organism or a tissue to withstand the effects of a harmful environmental agent.
  6. Electricity The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.


OTHER FORMS:
re·sistant(Adjective)


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