resistive
Americanadjective
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capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
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Electricity. pertaining to or relying on electrical resistance.
Pressure from your finger creates an electrical contact between the two layers of a resistive touchscreen.
adjective
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another word for resistant
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exhibiting electrical resistance
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“Deputy Kirk used a level of force that deputies across this country are trained and authorized to use when taking a resistive suspect into custody,” Wilson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
When a photon strikes a pixel, the current shunted into the resistive heating element warms a small part of the readout wire, creating a tiny hotspot.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
The team’s array of seafloor electrodes, sensitive to the conductivity of water, captured a subducting seamount that appeared to have a conductive interior covered by a thin resistive crust.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2023
"If we start building communities and structures out of materials more resistive to fire, we are upping our odds of success — we've got to do something different and do it better."
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2022
One in eight of those who become infected have not the resistive vitality to throw off the disease or the courage to face it and take such precautions as will prevent its advance.
From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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