effective resistance

nounElectricity.

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

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Before the sleep-dazed Federals could offer effective resistance, Gordons men had possession of the fort and the batteries.
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The Saxon bishops were feeble and indolent, and were not capable of making an effective resistance.
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It was unlikely that they would be able to oppose any effective resistance to the enemy's flank movement.
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Sufficiently strong to overawe the Kirghiz, it could offer no effective resistance to an European force.
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In the confusion of sudden rousing from sleep, she would 214 make no effective resistance.
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