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Resisting vs Resistive - What's the difference?

resisting | resistive |

As a verb resisting

is .

As a noun resisting

is resistance.

As an adjective resistive is

.

resisting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • resistance
  • * 1901 , The Insurance Times (volume 34, page 389)
    • There has been a great deal written recently regarding the honesty, or rather dishonesty of action on the part of surety companies, their technical bonds, their resistings of payments, their scalings of losses, etc.

    Anagrams

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    resistive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics) Resisting the passage of electrical current
    • This material is highly resistive .
  • Tending to resist
    • He had a stubborn, resistive nature.

    Derived terms

    * resistively * resistivity

    Related terms

    * resistant, resistance ----