resistant
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See also: résistant
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹəˈzɪstənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
resistant (plural resistants)
- A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
- A thing which resists.
Translations
a person who resists
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Adjective
resistant (comparative more resistant, superlative most resistant)
- Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
- Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
- The infection is resistant to antibiotics.
- 1975, Daniel McMahon, C. Fred Fox, Developmental Biology: Pattern Formation, Gene Regulation, Addison Wesley Longman:
- […] suggests the dauerlarva is resistant because of non-feeding and a more resistant cuticle. Examination of the dauerlarva cuticle by thin sectioning and electron micro […]
- (statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
Derived terms
- acid-resistant
- antiresistant
- atheroresistant
- bioresistant
- chemoresistant
- coresistant
- corticoresistant
- crossresistant
- cryoresistant
- exoresistant
- famine resistant
- fire-resistant
- gastro-resistant
- gastroresistant
- heat resistant
- heat-resistant
- heteroresistant
- homoresistant
- hyperresistant
- immunoresistant
- magnetoresistant
- monoresistant
- multi-resistant
- multiresistant
- nonresistant
- osmoresistant
- oxidoresistant
- panresistant
- pentaresistant
- pharmacoresistant
- phosphoresistant
- photoresistant
- piezoresistant
- polyresistant
- quantum-resistant
- radioresistant
- resistantly
- resistant materials
- seroresistant
- superresistant
- thermoresistant
- thromboresistant
- unresistant
- water-resistant
Translations
that which makes resistance
that which is not overcome by a disease or drug
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See also
References
- “resistant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
resistant
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