Resistance definition

(1) The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

"He encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"

"Despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"

(2) The military action of resisting the enemy's advance

"The enemy offered little resistance"

(3) Group action in opposition to those in power

(4) An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

(5) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

(6) The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

(7) A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

(8) Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

(9) A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

(10) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease