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specific resistance

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.

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

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At the same time, I don’t exclude the pragmatism of issue specific resistance.

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This activity gives the animal a very specific resistance, presumably because it is restricted to cells that sense AITC.

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Furthermore, infected travellers from elsewhere have introduced the virus to the region many times, and Asian populations don’t have any specific resistance to yellow fever.

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specific phobiaspecific viscosity