Associations to the word «Thermistor»

Wiktionary

THERMISTOR, noun. A resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature and as a result can be used to measure temperature.

Dictionary definition

THERMISTOR, noun. A semiconductor device made of materials whose resistance varies as a function of temperature; can be used to compensate for temperature variation in other components of a circuit.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne