resistanceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/

名詞

resistance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 resistances)

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

   Synonym: opposition

   • 1695, John Kettlewell, Chriſtianity, a Doctrine of the Cross: or, Paſſive Obedience under any Pretended Invaſion of Legal Rights and Liberties‎^[1], page 89:

     […] this Autority of his Perſon, doth notwithſtanding lay on us an Obligation, of keeping under his Obedience, and making no warlike Reſiſtance.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎^[2]:

     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.

   widespread resistance to the new urban development plans

   the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics

2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. (physics) Electrical resistance.
4. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

上位語

派生語

参照

• resistance on Wikipedia.

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• ancestries, increasest, senatrices

名詞

resistance (複数形 resistances)

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. (sociology) An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

アナグラム

• ancestries