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specific resistance

British  

noun

  1. the former name for resistivity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This probably explains how the bacteria could withstand the antibiotics without having specific resistance genes.

From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023

A Western military adviser to the Ukrainians said that details of a specific resistance there remained a closely held secret.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2022

Scions capable of producing a particular fruit variety are grated onto root stock with specific resistance to disease.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

They act locally as autocrine or paracrine factors, stimulating the proliferation of progenitor cells and helping to stimulate both nonspecific and specific resistance to disease.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

These values have accordingly been accepted as the official and recognized values for the specific resistance of mercury, and the definition of the ohm.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" by Various