Phrase Hound found 9 phrases and 14 compound words that contain resistances. The most common are listed below. Open resistances in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 9
- air resistancesplural of air resistance: force on an object directed against its direction of movement through air
- cross-resistancesplural of cross-resistance: The tolerance to a usually toxic substance stimulated by former exposure to a structurally similar substance.
- electrical resistancesplural of electrical resistance: The opposition offered by an electrical conductor to the flow of a current through itself, resulting in a conversion of electrical energy into heat and radiation. The SI derived unit of resistance is the …
- impact resistancesplural of impact resistance: The characteristic of resistance to fracture under the sudden application of force.
- radiation resistancesplural of radiation resistance: That part of an antenna's feedpoint electrical resistance caused by the emission of radio waves from the antenna.
- rolling resistancesplural of rolling resistance: The force that resists the rolling of a wheel or other round object.
- specific resistancesplural of specific resistance: Resistivity.
- ohmic resistancesplural of ohmic resistance: That portion of the apparent resistance or impedance of a circuit which depends only upon the dimensions of the conductors, their temperature, and the materials of which they are composed.
- Kapitza resistancesplural of Kapitza resistance: A resistance to the flow of heat across the interface between liquid helium and a solid that produces a temperature discontinuity.
Compound words 14
- chemoresistancesplural of chemoresistance: The resistance of a cell to the actions of a chemical compound.
- crossresistancesplural of crossresistance: The tolerance to a usually toxic substance stimulated by former exposure to a structurally similar substance.
- cryoresistancesplural of cryoresistance: resistance to damage from freezing or from low temperatures
- electroresistancesplural of electroresistance: the change in electrical resistance with current
- heteroresistancesplural of heteroresistance: The effect of the presence of one type of bacterium on resistance of another to a specific antibiotic
- magnetoresistancesplural of magnetoresistance: The change of electrical resistance produced in a conductor or semiconductor on application of a magnetic field.
- memresistancesplural of memresistance: Electrical resistance that varies according to the history of electric charge that has flowed through a device
- monoresistancesplural of monoresistance: resistance to a single antibiotic
- nonresistancesplural of nonresistance: Lack of resistance; not actively resisting.
- photoresistancesplural of photoresistance: resistance of a material that varies with the amount of incident light