Noun

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.

(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.

An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of retaining or something retained

* 1599 , , II. iv. 95:

No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention .

The act or power of remembering things

A memory; what is retained in the mind

(medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces

(obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.

* 1599 , , V. i. 79:

His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,

(obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.

(legal) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.

(Erskine)

(Craig)