Lexic.us

Definition of Resistive

1. Adjective. Exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance. "Resistive load"

2. Adjective. Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.

Definition of Resistive

1. a. Serving to resist.

Definition of Resistive

1. Adjective. (physics) Resisting the passage of electrical current ¹

2. Adjective. Tending to resist ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Resistive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resistive

resistaunce resisted resistentialism resister resisters resisteth resistful resistibilities resistibility resistible

resistin resisting resisting arrest resistingly resistins resistive (current term) resistive movement resistively resistiveness resistivenesses

resistivities resistivity resistless resistlessly resistlessness resistor resistors resists resit resite

Literary usage of Resistive

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

1. Opportunities In High Magnetic Field Science by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"To control energy costs, resistive DC magnets are energized only when experiments ... It is reasonable to anticipate that resistive DC magnets that produce ..."

2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Requirements of a Fire-resistive Floor.—A fire-resistive floor should withstand a fire destroying the combustible contents of a building with no damage to ..."

3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Requirements of a Fire-resistive Floor.—A fire-resistive floor should withstand a fire destroying the combustible contents of a building with no damage to ..."

4. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Requirements of a Fire-resistive Floor.—A fire-resistive floor should withstand a fire destroying the combustible contents of a building with no damage to ..."

5. Massage and Therapeutic Exercise by Mary McMillan (1921)
"CHAPTER II MOVEMENTS TO JOINTS—PASSIVE, ACTIVE, resistive (TWO FORMS), ASSISTIVE w THERE are four distinctive types of therapeutic exercise, or movements ..."

6. Practical Massage and Corrective Exercises by Hartvig Nissen (1916)
"TRUNK TORSION (SITTING—resistive).— The patient sits on a stool or lounge, with hands on hips ; the operator, standing behind, puts his right hand on the ..."

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