Resistence vs. Resistance: What's the Difference?

Resistence is an incorrect spelling of Resistance.

Opposition to a force, typically preventing or hindering movement.

The refusal to accept or comply with something.

The ability of organisms to withstand a harmful agent or condition.

The impeding effect of a substance on an electrical current.

A secret organization resisting authority.

The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist.

A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.

Often Resistance An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.

(Psychology) A process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences.

Ability (of an organism, tissue, or cell) to withstand a destructive agent or condition such as a chemical compound, a disease agent, or an environmental stressor

Lack of normal response to a biologically active compound such as a hormone

(Electricity) The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.

Thermal resistance.

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.

(physics) electrical resistance.

An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.

A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, - good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.

The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with;

Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

The military action of resisting the enemy's advance;

(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

Group action in opposition to those in power