Word
Resistance
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
re-sist-ance
Definition
- n. - The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
- n. - The quality of not yielding to force or external
pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse
or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power;
as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the
resistance of a target to projectiles.
- n. - A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
- n. - A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an
electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears
an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a
small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high
resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.
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