resistance pyrometer
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～ pyrometer that measures high temperatures by the resistance in a heated wire
resistance
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～ a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
resistance
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～ the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
resistance
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～ (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
resistance
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～ (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
resistance
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～ the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"
resistance
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～ any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
resistance
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～ 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"
resistance
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～ group action in opposition to those in power
resistance
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～ the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"
resistance
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～ a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
resistant
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～ able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress; "the plant is tolerant of saltwater"; "these fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided"; "the new hybrid is more resistant to drought"
resistant
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～ incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"
resistant
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～ impervious to being affected; "resistant to the effects of heat"; "resistant to persuasion"
resistant
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～ relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
resistant
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～ disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
resister
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～ someone who offers opposition
resister
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～ someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
resistible
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～ capable of being resisted or withstood or frustrated; "a resistible attack"; "such resistible temptations"
resisting arrest
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～ physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest