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specific resistance

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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

We must, in particular, remember what is meant by the specific resistance, ρ of mercury in the electrostatic system.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

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