effective resistance

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. 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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Example Sentences

Another important shift in the recommendations is the recognition that effective resistance training does not require access to a gym.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

To avoid that fate, we must mount sustained and effective resistance in each of those domains.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024

Those dynamics would suggest that organizations like Wikipedia will be forced to adapt to the future that A.I. has begun to create, rather than exert influence over A.I. or mount an effective resistance to it.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023

But the excitement of fans who hadn’t heard “Bulls on Parade” live since Rage last performed five years ago shouldn’t be taken as an indication that the song’s anti-authoritarian message was marshaling an effective resistance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2016

But for this, army reorganization, particularly in Belgium, would be necessary in order that it might really guarantee an effective resistance.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)