internal resistance

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. the resistance within a battery, or other voltage source, that causes a drop in the source voltage when there is a current.

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internal resistance British  

noun

1. physics the resistance of a cell, accumulator, etc, usually given as ( E - V )/ I , where E is the emf of the cell, and V the potential difference between terminals when it is delivering a current I

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Example Sentences

Maybe it seemed, once, that a spirited internal resistance could effectively limit Musk’s damage and preserve some of the prior spirit of the microblogging platform that writers, public agencies, and other creative types had come to depend upon.

From Slate

“Change is always difficult,” Richardson said in the statement, “and often faces internal resistance from those who benefited from the previous status quo.”

From Los Angeles Times

At Fox, there is less internal resistance to this mandate than ever.

From Slate

So, Dongdong Ye, Xingzhen Qin and colleagues designed a semipermeable membrane from environmentally friendly materials that would theoretically minimize internal resistance and maximize output power.

From Science Daily

"It's not only about how much energy you can store, but also the internal resistance we care about."

From Science Daily