effective resistance

noun

, Electricity.

the resistance to an alternating current, expressed as the ratio of the power dissipated to the square of the effective current.

Before the sleep-dazed Federals could offer effective resistance, Gordons men had possession of the fort and the batteries.

The Saxon bishops were feeble and indolent, and were not capable of making an effective resistance.

It was unlikely that they would be able to oppose any effective resistance to the enemy's flank movement.

Sufficiently strong to overawe the Kirghiz, it could offer no effective resistance to an European force.

In the confusion of sudden rousing from sleep, she would 214 make no effective resistance.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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