| 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 |
| 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 | the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
| pinwheel pinwheel wind collector | a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind |
| 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 |
| series circuit | a circuit having its parts connected serially |
solar dish
solar collector
solar furnace | a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun, can produce high temperatures |
| resistance | (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness |
| resistance | the degree of unresponsiveness of a diseaseausing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillinesistant bacteria) |
| GI series | diagnostic tests of the alimentary canal, usually involves inserting a contrast medium (such as barium sulfate) and taking an Xay |
| series | (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions |
| power series | the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable |
| geometric series | a geometric progression written as a sum |
| Fourier series | the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions, used in the analysis of periodic functions |
| time series | a series of values of a variable at successive times |
series
serial serial publication | a periodical that appears at scheduled times |
serial
series | a serialized set of programs, a comedy series, the Masterworks concert series |
| series | (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams, the visiting team swept the series |
| World Series | series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship, we watched the World Series on TV |
| 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 |
electromotive series
electromotive force series
electrochemical series | a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions, the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series |
| series | similar things placed in order or happening one after another, they were investigating a series of bank robberies |
| series | a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection, the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers, his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies |
| collector | a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth |
collector
gatherer
accumulator | a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) |
| collector aggregator | a person who collects things |
garbage man
garbageman
garbage collector
garbage carter
garbage hauler
refuse collector
dustman | someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse |
lepidopterist
lepidopterologist
butterfly collector | an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths |
numismatist
numismatologist
coin collector | a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) |
philatelist
stamp collector | a collector and student of postage stamps |
| rent collector | a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner |
tax collector
taxman
exciseman
collector of internal revenue
internal revenue agent | someone who collects taxes for the government |
ticket collector
ticket taker | someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets |
tollkeeper
tollman
tollgatherer
toll collector
toll taker
toll agent
toller | someone employed to collect tolls |
| 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 |
| resistance unit | the reciprocal of conductance |