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Meanings of resistor in English

Russian
сопротивление
Portuguese
resistência
Catalan
resistència elèctrica
Spanish
resistor
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Passive electronic component used for its resistance.

        сопротивление
        Portuguese
        resistor
        Catalan
        resistència
        Spanish
        resistencia

        An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current.

              resistor
              Usage of resistor in English
              1
              Schnorr's team uses this material as a resistor in a tiny electrical circuit.
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              2
              This is different than a computer where every transistor and resistor makes a difference.
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              3
              Figuring out the ohms of one resistor is simple, just look the color bands.
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              4
              That's because according to Ohm's Law, the voltage across the resistor depends on the current.
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              5
              But unlike a resistor, it would "remember" charges even when it lost power.
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              6
              And a zero-ohm resistor, which costs half a penny, and is also connected to nothing.
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              7
              The Ahmed valve implant behaves as a variable resistor.
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              8
              If the grid resistor on that oscillator went out, for instance, what would it do?
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              9
              This is a resistor that has no resistance: a bit of wire in a tiny box.
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              10
              The French team reported a cracked capacitor and resistor, plus damage to two "decoder-type" components.
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              11
              Instead, the resistor is a way to model the limitations of the chemical reaction inside the battery.
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              12
              It is based on a micro-machined cantilever, on the tip of which a platinum resistor is patterned.
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              13
              The electrical circuits that underpin today's machines use three basic components: the capacitor, the resistor, and the inductor.
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              14
              The function of a civil resistor.
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              15
              Features include a resistor calculator; converters for binary, hex, ASCII, and other figures; and cheat sheets for component values.
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              16
              Like a resistor, he said, it would create and maintain a safe flow of electrical current across a device.
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