Word of the Day – December 7, 2018
resistance
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| Noun | The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with. (used 6 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | The military action of resisting the enemy's advance. (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | Group action in opposition to those in power. (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current. (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness. (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria). (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion. (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms. (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | The capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents. (used 3 times in citations and controls) |
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| Noun | (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease. (used 0 times in citations and controls) |
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| Plural | resistances |
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