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Definition of Electric resistance

1. Noun. A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Electric Resistance

Literary usage of Electric resistance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"But when the electric resistance of a properly shaped conductor of a properly chosen material has been once determined, it is found that it always remains ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
""On the Measurement of electric resistance." By Professor W. THOMSON, FRS Received June 6, 1861. Part I. New Electrodynamic Balance for resistances of short ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"Dickson (" Philosophical Magazine," December) examines the relation between the electric resistance of a metallic wire and its temperature, with a view to ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"On an electric resistance Thermometer for observing Temperatures at inaccessible ... The electric resistance of a copper or well-annealed platinum wire, ..."

5. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1874)
"ON THE electric resistance OF SELENIUM. By the EARL OP ROSSE, DCL, FRS le- The experiments were made chiefly to determine whether the tion of the electric ..."

6. Vestiges of Pre-metric Weights and Measures Persisting in Metric-system by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1881)
"CHAPTER XL THE MEASUREMENT OF electric resistance. 335. ... But when the electric resistance of a properly shaped conductor of a properly chosen material ..."

7. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"electric resistance Pyrometers: Instruments of this type depend on the fact that the electrical resistance of metals increases with rise in their ..."

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