Resistances Synonyms and Antonyms

A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. undergrounds
  2. stands
  3. fronts
  4. slowdowns
  5. strikes
  6. uprisings
  7. insurgencies
Antonyms:
  1. acceptances
  2. submissions
  3. compliances
  4. cooperations
The power of holding back another substance
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. detentions
  2. reserves
  3. frictions
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. immunities
  2. stabilities
  3. fastnesses
  4. hardnesses
Antonyms:
  1. vacillations
  2. susceptibilities
  3. variabilities

Resistances Sentence Examples

  • In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

  • In practice the resistances r, r' are 9 Earth FIG.

  • The leakage through the insulator of the cable is compensated for by connecting high resistances between different points of the strip conductor and the earth coating.

  • Faults or any other irregularity in the cable may be represented by putting resistances of the proper kind into the artificial line.

  • If the attack of a parasite is met by the formation of some substance in the protoplasm which is chemo- tactically repulsive to the invader, it may be totally incapable of penetrating the cell, even though equipped with a whole armoury of cytases, diastatic and other enzymes, and poisons which would easily overcome the more passive resistances offered by mere cell-walls and cell-contents of other plants, the protoplasm of which forms bodies chemotactically attractive to the Fungus.

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