Resistance vs Resistive - What's the difference?
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The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
(physics) Resisting the passage of electrical current
Tending to resist
Resistive is a related term of resistance.
In physics terms the difference between resistance and resistive
is that resistance is shortened form of electrical resistance while resistive is resisting the passage of electrical current.As a noun resistance
is the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.As an adjective resistive is
resisting the passage of electrical current.resistance
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Alternative forms
* resistaunce (obsolete)Noun
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
Anagrams
*resistive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- This material is highly resistive .
- He had a stubborn, resistive nature.