English-Portuguese translations for resistance

• resistência
  Onde é que está a resistência?Where does the resistance lie?
  O Hamas é um movimento de resistência.Hamas is a resistance movement.
  Agora podem oferecer alguma resistência.They can now offer some 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