resistivity
noun
re·sis·tiv·i·ty
ri-ˌzi-ˈsti-və-tē 
ˌrē-
plural resistivities
1
: the longitudinal electrical resistance of a uniform rod of unit length and unit cross-sectional area : the reciprocal of conductivity
2
: capacity for resisting : resistance
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Kolawole went out that day, measuring the electrical resistivity of the ground to create maps showing how the rupture, down in the bedrock, had caused the cracks, leaving farms built on sand deposits more vulnerable to future earthquakes.
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Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 7 Nov. 2024
In recent years physicists have found a dozen or more materials that are clearly metals, in the sense that their electrical resistivity decreases with decreasing temperature, but that are not Fermi liquids.
—Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
Last year the researchers used a combination of three scanning technologies — ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography and seismic noise tomography — to generate three-dimensional images of what lay below.
—Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
In order to calculate grounding resistance, engineers need to know the soil resistivity for the problem at hand and have a robust calculation method, like FEM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
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Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 7 Nov. 2024
In recent years physicists have found a dozen or more materials that are clearly metals, in the sense that their electrical resistivity decreases with decreasing temperature, but that are not Fermi liquids.
—Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
Last year the researchers used a combination of three scanning technologies — ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography and seismic noise tomography — to generate three-dimensional images of what lay below.
—Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
In order to calculate grounding resistance, engineers need to know the soil resistivity for the problem at hand and have a robust calculation method, like FEM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
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resistivity
noun
re·sis·tiv·i·ty
ri-ˌzis-ˈtiv-ət-ē, ˌrē-
plural resistivities
: the longitudinal electrical resistance of a uniform rod of unit length and unit cross-sectional area : the reciprocal of conductivity
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