resistive
adjective
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adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English resist Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English resistive From resist + -ive.
- Tending to resist something or someone; resistant.
“He had a stubborn, resistive nature.”
- Acting as a resistor; resisting the passage of electrical current.
“This material is highly resistive.”
- Of an electronic circuit: consisting only of resistors and power sources; having no inductance and capacitance.
“a pure resistive circuit”