Definition of Ohmic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or measured in ohms.

Partainyms: Ohm
Derivative terms: Ohm

Definition of Ohmic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to, or measured in, ohms. ¹

2. Adjective. That obeys Ohm's law ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ohmic

1. ohm [adj] - See also: ohm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ohmic

ohana
ohanas
ohed
ohelo
oheloberries
oheloberry
ohia
ohias
ohing
ohm
ohm's law
ohmage
ohmages
ohmammeter
ohmefentanyl
ohmic (current term)
ohmic resistance
ohmically
ohmigod
ohmilite
ohmmeter
ohmmeters
ohmmm
ohms
ohn
ohne Hauch
ohnosecond
ohnoseconds
oho
ohone

Literary usage of Ohmic

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

1. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"(5), clearly indicates the influence of an ohmic resistance in series with a reactance. The analytical relationship represented by eqs. ..."

2. Electric Power Transmission: Principles and Calculations, Including a by Alfred Still (1919)
"Economic ohmic Voltage Drop.—It is not generally realized that when the size of a conductor is determined by the application of Kelvin's law the ohmic drop ..."

3. Principles of Direct-current Machines by Alexander Suss Langsdorf (1919)
"The ohmic Losses. — The ohmic or copper (t'V) losses are accurately measurable or can be determined by calculation from the design data of the machine. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"With high discharge rates, something like o'i volt may be lost in the cells, by ordinary ohmic fall, so that a voltage reading of 1-75 means an E.ic. ..."

5. Hawkins Electrical Guide: Questions, Answers & Illustrations; a Progressive ...by Nehemiah Hawkins by Nehemiah Hawkins (1914)
"The disturbance of current density may be looked upon as a self-induced eddy current tn the conductor. It necessarily results in an increase of ohmic loss; ..."

6. Methods of Measuring Electrical Resistance by Edwin Fitch Northrup (1912)
"Comments on ohmic Resistance. — An ohmic resistance, considered as a quantity to be measured, may be viewed in two ways. If we call E the drop of potential ..."

7. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"Hence, with N = 80 we find thus in respect to the ohmic resistance of the whole wire, ... First, consider copper wire of 1 centimetre diameter : the ohmic ..."

8. Electro-deposition of Metals: A Practical, Comprehensive Work Comprising by Georg Langbein (1920)
"Measuring ohmic Resistance of Solution. The ohmic resistance of plating solutions may be measured by a simple hook-up of a Wheatstone bridge according to aB ..."

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