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's item showpiece piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
gas heat | heating system that burns natural gas |
heat engine | any engine that makes use of heat to do work |
heat exchanger | device that transfers heat from one liquid to another without allowing them to mix |
heating system heating plant heating heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
heat lamp infrared lamp | electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation, the bathroom could be warmed by an infrared lamp |
heat pump | apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings, can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building |
heat-seeking missile | a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine) |
heat shield | a protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on reentry |
heat sink | a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat |
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 |
steam heat steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
heat warmth passion | the trait of being intensely emotional |
resistance | (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness |
heat content total heat enthalpy H | (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure, enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work |
body temperature blood heat | temperature of the body, normally . F or C in humans, usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health |
hotness heat high temperature | the presence of heat |
fieriness red heat | the heat or the color of fire |
white heat | the hotness of something heated until it turns white |
thermal barrier heat barrier | a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating |
resistance | the degree of unresponsiveness of a diseaseausing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillinesistant bacteria) |
heat warmth | the sensation caused by heat energy |
kinetic theory of heat | a theory that the temperature of a body increases when kinetic energy increases |
dead heat | a tie in a race |
heat flash | a flash of intense heat (as released by an atomic explosion) |
heat lightning | bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings), usually attributed to distant lightning that is reflected by clouds |
heat | a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race |
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 |
heat heat energy | a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature |
heat of dissociation | the heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents |
heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
heat of solution | the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent |
latent heat heat of transformation | heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure |
heat of condensation | heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid, the heat of condensation is equal to the heat of vaporization |
heat of fusion | heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature, the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification |
heat of solidification | heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point when it solidifies |
heat of sublimation | heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state |