resistance
resistance (rĭ-zĭsʹtəns) 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 unpleasant experiences.
5. Biology. a. The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease. b. The capacity of an organism or a tissue to withstand the effects of a harmful environmental agent.
6. Abbr. r, R 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.
resisʹtant adjective