| resistance opposition | 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 |
line of least resistance
path of least resistance | the easiest way, In marrying him she simply took the path of least resistance |
least effort
least resistance | the least effortful way to do something |
dark ground illumination
dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
| resistance | the military action of resisting the enemy's advance, the enemy offered little resistance |
| resistance | group action in opposition to those in power |
| sales resistance | resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices |
passive resistance
nonviolent resistance
nonviolence | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
diode
semiconductor diode
junction rectifier
crystal rectifier | a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
light-emitting diode
LED | diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current, color depends on the material used |
| miniature illumination | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) |
organic light-emitting diode
OLED | a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers |
photograph
photo
exposure
picture pic | a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide, recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material |
| resistance pyrometer | pyrometer that measures high temperatures by the resistance in a heated wire |
resistance thermometer
platinum thermometer | thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the resistance of a spiral of platinum wire |
resistor
resistance | an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current |
| source of illumination | any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation |
| resistance | (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness |
illuminance
illumination | the luminous flux incident on a unit area |
| resistance | the degree of unresponsiveness of a diseaseausing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillinesistant bacteria) |
photo-offset printing
photo-offset | a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates |
| photo credit | a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph |
| photo finish | in general, any very close finish, in particular, a finish of a race in which the contestants are so close together that the winner must be determined from a photograph taken at the instant of finishing |
photo opportunity
photo op | an occasion that lends itself to (or is deliberately arranged for) taking photographs that provide favorable publicity for those who are photographed |
| piece de resistance | the most important dish of a meal |
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
GRAPO | an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain, seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime, GRAPO is vehemently opposed to the United States |
Hamas
Islamic Resistance Movement | a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon, seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel, is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel, pioneered suicide bombing |
| Lord's Resistance Army | a quasieligious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army |
underground
resistance | a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force |
| resistance | any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion |
electric resistance
electrical resistance
impedance
resistance resistivity
ohmic resistance | a material's opposition to the flow of electric current, measured in ohms |
acoustic resistance
acoustic impedance
acoustic reactance | opposition to the flow of sound through a surface, acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component |
ultraviolet
ultraviolet radiation
ultraviolet light
ultraviolet illumination
UV | radiation lying in the ultraviolet range, wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays |
| resistance unit | the reciprocal of conductance |
| illumination unit | a measure of illumination |
| illumination | the degree of visibility of your environment |
| resistance | 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 |
| immunity resistance | (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease |
| light illumination | a condition of spiritual awareness, divine illumination, follow God's light |