Resistive

Definitions: Resistive

Resistive

Adjective

1. Exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance; "resistive load".

2. Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.

Date "resistive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Resistive

Domain	Definitions
Electrical Engineering	Applying to a device or circuit in which, under given conditions, the predominant quantity is resistance. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Resistive

Synonyms: insubordinate (adj), resistant (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Resistive

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Resistance	Adjective: resisting;Verb: resistive, resistant; refractory; (disobedient); recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Resistive

Specialty definitions using "resistive": cathode bias, cathodic polarization, conjugate impedance, CORRECTIVE THERAPIST ♦ free molecule flow ♦ Gunning Transceiver Logic ♦ Johnson/Lark-Horowitz effect ♦ load card ♦ Magnetic Reconnection ♦ potentiometric sensor ♦ resistive attenuator, resistive heating, Resistive Instability, Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics, Resistive Voltage Drop ♦ toroidal vacuum chamber. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Resistive

Domain	Title
Books	Harry and Sarah Sneider's Olympic Trainer: Fitness Excellence through Resistive Rebounding (reference) Resistive Circuit Theory (reference) Resistive Weight Training (reference) Solenoid Magnet Design: The Magnetic and Mechanical Aspects of Resistive and Superconducting Systems (reference) Theory of Resistive Mixers (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Resistive

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	Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Double shoes for light resistive quadriceps exercise.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		U.S. Army, Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, CO. : High resistive exercise, inward rotation.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	U.S. Army, Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, CO. : High resistive excercise, outward rotation.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Usage Frequency: Resistive

"Resistive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Resistive" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	32	61,292

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Resistive

Expressions using "resistive": resistive attenuator ♦ resistive heating. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "resistive": fire-resistive, magneto-resistive.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Resistive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
resistive	21
resistive touch screen	12
international resistive	6
resistive exercise band	4
bank load resistive	3
co international resistive	3
loads resistive	3
precision product resistive	3
behavior client in resistive	3
circuit excitation resistive sinusoidal	2
building code fire resistive uniform	2
international resistive company	2
resistive temperature device	2
paste resistive	2
ac load purely resistive	2
gauge piezo resistive strain	2
measuring resistive system	2
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Modern Translations: Resistive

Language		Translations for "resistive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		抗�'. (various references)

Danish		resistiv. (various references)

Dutch		resistief. (various references)

Finnish		resistiivinen. (various references)

French		résistif. (various references)

German		Widerstands..., ohmsch. (various references)

Greek		Ωμική θερμότητα (Joule heating, Ohmic heating, resistive heating), απορροφητικός εξασθενητής (absorptive attenuator, resistive attenuator), θερμότητα Joule (Joule heating, Ohmic heating, resistive heating), θερμότητα αντιστάσεως (Joule heating, Ohmic heating, resistive heating). (various references)

Hungarian		rezisztív, ohmos (ohmic), ellenállásos. (various references)

Italian		resistivo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		抵抗�" (resistive element). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		てい�"うたい (resistive element). (various references)

Pig Latin		esistiveray

Portuguese		resistivo, que resiste. (various references)

Russian		могущий оказать сопротивление. (various references)

Spanish		resistivo, resistador. (various references)

Swedish		resistiv (non-reactive). (various references)

Ukranian		який може чинити опір. (various references)

Vietnamese		chống lại (averse, counter, opponent, oppugnant, reluctant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Resistive

Derivations
	Words beginning with "resistive": resistively, resistiveness, resistivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Resistive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: resistate, russische. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Resistive"

Words rhyming with "resistive" (pronounced 'Re*sist"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Demissive, Denotive, Depressive, Desistive, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Resistive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-r-s-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: revisits, verities, vestries, visiters.
	-2 letters: resites, restive, revests, revises, revisit, stivers, strives, veriest, verists, verites, versets, verstes, visiter, vitesse.
	-3 letters: esters, everts, evites, irises, reests, reives, resets, resist, resite, reties, revest, revets, revise, rivets, seiser, serest, series, serves, severs, sieves, sirees, sister, sivers, steers, steres, stiver, strive, verist, verite, verses, verset, verste, versts.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-r-s-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: severities, vestiaries.
	+2 letters: adversities, diversities, erosivities, nervosities, resistively, revitalises, servilities, verbosities.
	+3 letters: cervicitises, divestitures, expressivity, insectivores, investitures, lentiviruses, perversities, regressivity, restrictives, seropositive, shrievalties, subvarieties, timeservings, universities, viscometries, viscosimeter.
	+4 letters: antislaveries, eviscerations, introgressive, intrusiveness, overinsistent, oversensitive, primitiveness, resistiveness, resistivities, resuscitative, sovereignties, versatilities, viscosimeters.
	+5 letters: aggressivities, antisubversive, biodiversities, derivativeness, disruptiveness, diverticuloses, divertissement, expressivities, figurativeness, hypersensitive, imperativeness, multiversities, prerevisionist, radiosensitive, regressivities, reinvestigates, repetitiveness, reservationist, revolutionises, severabilities, supergravities, supersensitive, transitiveness, ultrasensitive, universalities, vegetarianisms, vesicularities.
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