internal resistance

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.

internal resistance

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

Example Sentences

Short of that, perhaps internal resistance within the administration or pressure from the public and the media might serve the oversight function that Congress, over the past eight months, has abrogated.

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And so I don’t want to say: “Oh, I faced internal resistance within the DNC’s approval process.”

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Trump will be able to get his nominees for administration posts approved more easily, something he struggled with back in 2017 when internal resistance to him in the Republican Party was still a significant factor.

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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.

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In this, Trump will face little internal resistance.

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