wheeling rolling | propelling something on wheels |
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 |
rolling | the act of robbing a helpless person, he was charged with rolling drunks in the park |
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 |
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 |
rolling hitch | a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope |
rolling mill | steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars |
rolling pin | utensil consisting of a cylinder (usually of wood) with a handle at each end, used to roll out dough |
rolling stock | collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier |
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) |
derived function derivative differential coefficient differential first derivative | the result of mathematical differentiation, the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another, df(x) dx |
regression coefficient | when the regression line is linear (y axb) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x), it is the slope of the regression line |
correlation coefficient coefficient of correlation correlation | a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary, it can vary from - (perfect negative correlation) through (no correlation) to(perfect positive correlation), what is the correlation between those two variables? |
product-moment correlation coefficient Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient | the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related |
multiple correlation coefficient | an estimate of the combined influence of two or more variables on the observed (dependent) variable |
biserial correlation coefficient biserial correlation | a correlation coefficient in which one variable is many-valued and the other is dichotomous |
rank-order correlation coefficient rank-order correlation rank-difference correlation coefficient rank-difference correlation | the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables |
coefficient of concordance | a coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things |
tau coefficient of correlation Kendall's tau Kendall rank correlation | a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings |
phi coefficient phi correlation fourfold point correlation | an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female) |
tetrachoric correlation coefficient tetrachoric correlation | a correlation coefficient computed for two normally distributed variables that are both expressed as a dichotomy |
roller roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
peal pealing roll rolling | a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) |
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 |
coefficient | a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic |
absorption coefficient coefficient of absorption absorptance | a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance, the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber, absorptance equals minus transmittance |
drag coefficient coefficient of drag | the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body |
coefficient of friction | the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surface |
coefficient of mutual induction mutual inductance | a measure of the induction between two circuits, the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of current in a neighboring circuit, usually measured in henries |
coefficient of self induction self-inductance | the ratio of the electromotive force produced in a circuit by self-induction to the rate of change of current producing it, expressed in henries |
coefficient of elasticity modulus of elasticity elastic modulus | (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body |
coefficient of expansion expansivity | the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure |
coefficient of reflection reflection factor reflectance reflectivity | the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface |
coefficient of viscosity absolute viscosity dynamic viscosity | a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force |