Resistance may refer to:

In medicine or biology:

• Antibiotic resistance, the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic

• Disease resistance, in immunology; see also disease resistance in fruit and vegetables
• Pesticide resistance

In business, change management, psychology and psychotherapy:

• Resistance to change, the manner in which a person appears to be unable or unwilling to adopt suggestions or explore avenues suggested by an authority figure or advisor.

In physics, a force that tends to oppose motion:

• Friction, the force that opposes the relative motion

• Air resistance, fluid or gas forces opposing motion and flow
• Geological resistance, a measure of how well minerals resist erosive factors
• Fluid resistance / drag / hydraulic conductivity
• Thermal resistance, a temperature difference
• Electrical resistance, a measure of the degree to which an object opposes the passage of an electric current

a Resistance movement, a non-military group or collection of individual groups fighting against foreign occupation:

• Resistance during World War II movement during World War II

• French Resistance, a notable example of a World War II Resistance movement
• Resistance (socialist youth organisation), a Marxist-oriented socialist youth organisation in Australia

other:

• the HMS Resistance a Royal Navy battleship 1859-1940

In fiction:

• Resistance (V TV series), humans against an alien takeover in the V television series.

  • Resistance Records, a white power music label

• Resistance (technical analysis), in security trading
• Resistance welding, a group of welding processes
• Fall of Man, a first-person shooter for the PlayStation 3
• inner resistance
• Psychodynamic resistance

See also

• Resilience
• Resistor

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