English-Estonian translations for resistance

• takistus
  Soojusvahetite takistus peab olema väike, kuid suur takistus on samas oluline isolatsioonimaterjalide väikese soojusjuhtivuse pärast. Low resistance is important in heat exchangers, while high resistance is important because of the low thermal conductivity of insulating materials.
• vastupanu
  Selle pärast ei ole ime, et see riik nüüd vastupanu osutab. It is no wonder that this country is now putting up resistance.
  See oli väga suur samm, raske samm, mis kohtas igasugust vastupanu. That was a major step, a difficult step, facing all that resistance.
  Sellest ajast saadik on Gernika olnud rahu ja vastupanu universaalne sümbol. Ever since, Guernica has been a universal symbol for peace and resistance.

Definition of resistance

• The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist
• A force that tends to oppose motion
• An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement

Examples

• widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
• the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics

Related words

• magnetoresistance
• photoresistance
• chemoresistance
• antiresistance
• unresistance
• thermoresistance
• antibioresistance
• pharmacoresistance
• crossresistance