resistance

n 1: the action of opposing something that you disapprove or

disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of

resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from

the newspapers he went ahead" [syn: {opposition}]

2: any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

3: a material's opposition to the flow of electric current;

measured in ohms [syn: {electric resistance}, {electrical

resistance}, {impedance}, {resistivity}, {ohmic resistance}]

4: the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the

enemy offered little resistance"

5: the condition in which an organism can resist disease

6: a secret group organized to overthrow a government or

occupation force [syn: {underground}]

7: (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings

into conscious awareness

8: an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical

current [syn: {resistor}]

9: group action in opposition to those in power

persistence

1. A property of a programming language where

created objects and variables continue to exist and retain

their values between runs of the program.

2. The length of time a phosphor dot on the screen

of a {cathode ray tube} will remain illuminated after it has

been energised by the electron beam. Long-persistence

phosphors reduce flicker, but generate ghost-like images that

linger on screen for a fraction of a second.

(1994-11-09)