resistive
adjEtymology From resist + -ive.
1
Rare Tending to resist something or someone; resistant.
- He had a stubborn, resistive nature.
2
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Acting as a resistor; resisting the passage of electrical current.
- This material is highly resistive.
3
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of an electronic circuit: consisting only of resistors and power sources; having no inductance and capacitance.
- a pure resistive circuit
- Derived terms
- chemiresistive, elastoresistive, magnetoresistive, nonresistive, photoresistive, piezoresistive, resistively, resistiveness, resistive random access memory, resistivity, thermoresistive, viscoresistive
- Related terms
- resistant, resistance