resistance

noun5

1. •
   an effort to stop or push back against something that is not wanted

   • widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
2. •
   A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. •
   An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

   • Alliance forces are stretched too thin right now to attempt to liberate the colony, but we've been doing what we can to covertly aid the local resistance. — 2012
4. •
   Electrical resistance.
5. •
   (old-fashioned) A resistor.

   • In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel […] — 1928