Usually means: Opposition to force or change.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. resistance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. resistance, the Resistance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. resistance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. resistance, the Resistance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. resistance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Resistance, resistance: Wordnik
  7. resistance, the Resistance, the resistance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Resistance: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. resistance: Wiktionary
  10. resistance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. resistance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. resistance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. resistance, resistance (resistance level): Dictionary.com
  14. resistance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Resistance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. resistance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. resistance: Rhymezone
  19. resistance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. resistance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. resistance: Free Dictionary
  22. resistance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. resistance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. resistance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. resistance: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Resistance: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Resistance: Investopedia
  9. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  10. Resistance: Securities Terminology
  11. Resistance (biology), The Resistance, resistance: Legal dictionary
  12. Resistance (biology), Resistance: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. resistance: CCI Computer
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Resistance (biology), Resistance (electricity), Resistance (electronics), Resistance (physics), Resistance (to antiviral drugs), resistance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Resistance: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Resistance: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Resistance: HIV/AIDS Glossary
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  11. Resistance (biology), Resistance (to antiviral drugs), resistance: Medical dictionary
  12. Resistance: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. resistance: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Resistance: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Resistance: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Biological Control (No longer online)
  5. Resistance: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Resistance: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Resistance: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. resistance: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. resistance: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  7. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  9. RESISTANCE: Power Engineering
  10. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
noun:  (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
noun:  (physics) Electrical resistance.
noun:  (electronics, dated) A resistor.
noun:  An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

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