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One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
definition
An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.
Examples of resistor in a Sentence
With the jump wire, clip one end to each side of the resistor then clip one wire to the shaft of the screwdriver.
A variable resistor very flowed in a manual box.
Sometimes the voltage divider resistor will be a tapped wire-wound type.
Fat tissue is comparatively anhydrous and acts as a resistor to the flow of an electrical signal.
Since the cathode resistor is not decoupled, 100 per cent voltage negative feedback is applied between output and input.
Actually pin 8 is the processor reset line and has an on-board pull-up resistor.
A convenient point to mount this resistor is inside the 7-pin DIN plug or jack plug of the cassette lead.
I probably should add a current limiting resistor to the circuit.
To find the dc collector current, measure the dc voltage across the emitter resistor and use ohm's law.
The shunt resistor is always an unusual low value, and needs to be hand-made from resistance wire.
Charge control is via an ordinary 10K resistor rather than a proper thermistor.
The more sensitive the eye is to a color, the lower resistor connected to it.
This is done with a resistor in parallel to the input of 1.8k.
In a similar fashion the load resistor R can also be placed across the switch.
If this test shows little or no voltage across the resistor, you 're probably all set.
I noted that somebody had replaced a resistor in one corner of the board with a pair of series 15k resistors.
Maybe we could do something along this line with a light dependent resistor to receive the light beam.
The voltage on the left hand 10 ohm resistor is flowing out of the top terminal of the resistor.
If the IF amplifier valve has a cathode bias resistor, check it's on value.
The carbon pile regulator is basically a resistor in series with the generator field coil.