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What does resistance mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
  2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
  3. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
  4. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
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The patented delay line detector features three pairs of low resistance wires wound around a hexagonal support.
The backward and forward stretching lobes and saddles actually provide resistance to pressure perpendicular to the septum.
People take a long time to die, accompanied by the cracking of bone, the resistance of gristle, dire last-gasp gurgles and rattles.
Some people have a strong resistance against the flu virus, while it caused others to die.
Most of the resistance fighters were peasants who traditionally wore kaffiyehs and lived in the mountains or small villages.
Individual cells were cloned into drops of medium and grown for 3 days prior to screening for drug resistance as described above.

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