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resistive

adj

Etymology

From resist + -ive.

  1. derived from resisto
  2. derived from resistre
  3. derived from resister
  4. inherited from resisten
  5. suffixed as resistive — “resist + ive”

Definitions

  1. Tending to resist something or someone

    Tending to resist something or someone; resistant.

    • He had a stubborn, resistive nature.

  2. Acting as a resistor

    Acting as a resistor; resisting the passage of electrical current.

    • This material is highly resistive.

  3. Of an electronic circuit

    Of an electronic circuit: consisting only of resistors and power sources; having no inductance and capacitance.

    • a pure resistive circuit

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Derived

chemiresistive, elastoresistive, magnetoresistive, nonresistive, photoresistive, piezoresistive, resistively, resistiveness, resistive random access memory, resistivity, thermoresistive, viscoresistive

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for resistive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA