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English
Noun
ohmic resistance (countable and uncountable, plural ohmic resistances)
- (electricity) That portion of the apparent resistance or impedance of a circuit which depends only upon the dimensions of the conductors, their temperature, and the materials of which they are composed.
Quotations
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References
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “resistance (supplement)”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes IV (P–Simulant), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- Edwin J. Houston (1903) A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, entry “Resistance, Ohmic”, page 456: “The term ohmic resistance must be regarded as a pleonasm. Its use can only be permitted in contradistinction to counter electromotive force resistance. True and spurious resistance would seem preferable.”