Look up: resistance

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   Resistance
   For plants and animals, the ability to withstand poor environmental conditions or attacks by chemicals or disease. May be inborn or acquired.
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   Resistance
   Is a price level where stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities are expected to receive sell orders. At its simplest application it is the ask or offer side of a quote. On a more complex level it refers to the upper boundary of some described trading range.
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   resistance
   The ability of an organism to exclude or overcome, completely or in some degree, the effect of a pathogen or other damaging factor.
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   Resistance
   Natural or genetic ability to avoid or repel attack by parasite or to withstand toxic effects of pesticide (microbial or chemical).
   Various types of inherited (or constitutive) resistance to pathogens are recognised in plants, but the terms used to describe them have a multiplicity of meanings to different workers. The following terms have been defined according to their most common and accepted usage:
   Resistance: a host plant can be considered resistant if it has the ability to suppress or retard virus activity. Resistant is the opposite of susceptible and may be quantitatively identified as high (extreme), moderate or low, depending on the effectiveness of the protective mechanism.
   Tolerance: a host response to virus infection that results in negligible or mild symptom expression, but relatively normal levels of virus concentration and movement within the host compared with a susceptible host.
   Immunity (immune): terms used to describe absolute exemption from infection by a specific pathogen. An immune plant is not attacked at all by the particular virus and is a non-host of the virus concerned.
   Field resistance: resistance shown by a host plant under natural field conditions, even though the same host may be susceptible to the virus under experimental conditions.
   Horizontal resistance: resistance that protects a host against all genetic variants of a pathogen to a greater or lesser degree.
   Vertical resistance: resistance that protects a host against only specific strains of a pathogen.
   Continuous resistance: a response involving a gradient from severe infection to extreme resistance in a segregating population.
   Discontinuous resistance: a response involving distinctive, clear-cut symptoms in a segregating population, which is often controlled by a single dominant gene.
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   Resistance
   Where for example in therapy a patient shows resistance to their psychoanalytic psychotherapists interpretation of their dream content . Often such resistance has to be broken down before the patient can accept what their unconscious is telling them about the cause of their neurosis.
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   resistance
   [n] - any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion 2. [n] - the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) 3. [n] - (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness 4. [n] - group action in opposition to those in power 5. [n] - the military action of resisting the enemy`s advance 6. [n] - the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
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   Resistance
   The price level where in the past a security has tended to stop rising and then subsequently falls.
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   Resistance
   1) That property of a conductor by which it opposes the flow of electric current, resulting in the generation of heat in the conducting material, usually expressed in ohms.
   2) Opposition to the flow of current in one direction or which does not represent different opposition for signals of different frequencies.
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   Resistance
   The real (non-reactive) part of the impedance of a circuit.
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    Resistance
    This is the amount of opposition or yes, resistance! to a flow of electrical current, and is measured in Ohm's, which is sometimes represented by the Greek symbol for Omega. In electronic's, copper, aluminium, gold and silver offers very little resistance to electric current, and are commonly known as 'conductors'. At the other extreme, rubber and ...
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    Resistance
    Resistance is a forecasted price level where the rate of exchange should encounter selling pressure, which should stop the price/rate from rising any further. Main market participants (Investment funds, Banks etc.) look for resistance and support levels to place orders and thus they become, to a large degree, self-fulfilling prophecies. See also SUPPORT.
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    Resistance
    The electrical resistance of a conductor is defined by:where I is the current flowing through the conductor and V is the potential difference across the conductor.The power disipated by a resistor is given by Joule's law:whereW = power disipated [Watt]I = current [Ampere]R = resistance [Ohm]V = potential difference across resistor [Volt]
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    Resistance
    The capacity of members to resist an action. (See also, Moment of Resistance.)
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    resistance
    Resistance (R) is electric potential difference divided by current when there is no electromotive force in the conductor. This definition applies to direct current. More generally, resistance is defined as the real part of impedance.
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    Resistance
    the opposition which a device or material offers to the flow of current; measured in ohms.
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    Resistance
    The opposition of a substance to the passage through it of a steady electric current.From Ohms Law, R = E/I, the resistance equals the voltage of the cell divided by the current flow.
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    resistance
    The opposition that a device or material offers to the flow of direct current, equal to the voltage drop across the element divided by the current through the element. Also called electrical resistance.
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    Resistance
    Measured in ohms. The equivalent of friction in water. Calculation: Resistance = Volts divided by Amps. When current flows through a conductor it creates heat because of resistance. Imagine Resistance as how tightly the material is holding the current. You may have noticed that the cord from an appliance can feel warm after running for a long time....
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    resistance
    Opposition to current flow in a conductor
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    Resistance
    The resistance to the flow of electric current measured in ohms (1/2) for a conductor. Resistance is function of diameter, resistivity (an intrinsic property of the material) and length.
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    Resistance
    Resistance: Opposition to something, or the ability to withstand it. For example, some forms of staphylococcus are resistant to treatment with antibiotics.
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    resistance
    a) the property of a substance restricting the magnitude of electric current flowing through it (disregarding reactive effects); b) the ratio of the voltage applied to the terminals of an electric component and the current flowing through those terminals Category: Physics • a level above which prices have had difficulty penetrating Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs
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    Resistance
    The internal structure of wires even in the best conductors opposes the flow of electric current and converts some current into heat. This internal friction-like effect is called resistance and is measured in ohms. Resistance equals Voltage divided by Amperage.
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    Resistance
    The ability of a community to avoid displacement from its present state by a disturbance.
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    Resistance
    Re·sist'ance (- a ns) noun [ French résistance , Late Latin resistentia , from resistens , - entis , present participle See Resist .] 1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. « When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces.» 1. Macc. xi. 38. 2. ...
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