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resistance meaning

EN[ɹɪˈzɪstəns]
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  • Resistance may refer to:
  • NounPLresistancesPREré-SUF-ance
    1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
      1. When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
    2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
      1. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
        1. An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • The Lord's Resistance Army have been described as terrorists.
            • The Soviets also distributed flyers pointing out the mujahidin resistance was financed by the U.S.
            • In all recipients, distant drug resistance markers streptomycin (SmR; rpsL104), chloramphenicol (CmR; recA::cat(FRT)), and/or nalidixic acid (NlR; gyrA96) were used for counterselection.
          2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
            • Resistance development to pexiganan, melittin and iseganan was registered in Staphylococcus aureus after two weeks of exposure [26 ].
            • Resistance was also reported for cymoxanil and propamocarb.
          3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • Our data suggest that inhibition of NEDDylation may be a useful strategy to resensitise tumour cells in patients that have acquired carboplatin resistance.

        Meaning of resistance for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "resistance" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
              • Singularia tantum
                • Uncountable nouns
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