negative resistance

British

noun

a characteristic of certain electronic components in which an increase in the applied voltage increases the resistance, producing a proportional decrease in current

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“There’s never been a positive social change that hasn’t been met with a tremendous amount of negative resistance, and that resistance always starts with the majority,” White told me.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2017

You have such a terrible power of negative resistance against poor, strong-willed me.

From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Zangwill, Louis

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