the refusal to accept or comply with something
they displayed a narrow-minded resistance to change
the ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely
some of us have a lower resistance to cold than others
the impeding or stopping effect exerted by one material thing on another
air resistance was reduced by streamlining
the degree to which a substance or device opposes the passage of an electric current, causing energy dissipation. By Ohm's law resistance (measured in ohms) is equal to the voltage divided by the current