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the only force that turns pressure into power and tyrants into footnotes.
means The act of opposing or pushing back against something — a force, an authority, an idea, or a current — whether in physics, politics, or the body.
from From Latin 'resistere,' to stand firm or hold one's ground, built from 're-' (back, against) plus 'sistere' (to take a stand, to make stay) — itself a doubling of the root 'stare,' to stand. So at its very heart the word is a body planting its feet. It traveled through Old French 'resistance' into English, and over centuries spread its meaning outward: from standing against a person, to the friction a wire offers an electric current, to the underground networks who stood against occupying armies.
- ohm's law
- Resistance turns electrical flow into usable heat and light
- muscle truth
- You grow only by pushing against weight that pushes back
- wartime origin
- WWII resistance fighters coined the term for organized defiance
- path of least
- Electricity and people both dodge it instinctively
- biology
- Antibiotic resistance evolves faster than we invent new drugs
french resistance — underground movement against nazi occupation of france, 1940-1944
indian independence movement — led by gandhi and nehru against british rule, 1857-1947
warsaw ghetto uprising — jewish resistance against nazi deportations, april 1943