resistor
noun
re·sis·tor
ri-ˈzi-stər 
: a device that has electrical resistance and that is used in an electric circuit for protection, operation, or current control
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The third resistor is attached to the trigger’s input, with the coil providing feedback.
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IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2022
The resistors were bankers and business leaders, Kiwanis and Rotary Club members and clergy, and middle-class members of White Citizens’ Councils who took pains to distance themselves from the Ku Klux Klan—as well as officeholders from local school boards to state capitols to the halls of Congress.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
The analog input voltage is fed into a five-tap logarithmic resistor divider, whose taps drive the thyratron grids.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019
An electronic analogy to silicon photonics would be something like taking discrete electrical components, such as copper wires and resistors, and integrating them onto a microchip with copper traces and nano-scale transistors.
—Christopher V. Poulton, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2016
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IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2022
The resistors were bankers and business leaders, Kiwanis and Rotary Club members and clergy, and middle-class members of White Citizens’ Councils who took pains to distance themselves from the Ku Klux Klan—as well as officeholders from local school boards to state capitols to the halls of Congress.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
The analog input voltage is fed into a five-tap logarithmic resistor divider, whose taps drive the thyratron grids.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019
An electronic analogy to silicon photonics would be something like taking discrete electrical components, such as copper wires and resistors, and integrating them onto a microchip with copper traces and nano-scale transistors.
—Christopher V. Poulton, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2016
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resistor
noun
re·sis·tor
ri-ˈzis-tər
: a device offering electrical resistance
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