Associations to the word «Resistor»

Wiktionary

RESISTOR, noun. One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
RESISTOR, noun. An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.

Dictionary definition

RESISTOR, noun. An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope