ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical resistance mean? 

• ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE (noun)
  The noun ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

  Familiarity information: ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

electric resistance; electrical resistance; impedance; ohmic resistance; resistance; resistivity

Hypernyms ("electrical resistance" is a kind of...):

electrical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon involving electricity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical resistance"):

ohmage (the ohmic resistance of a conductor)

 Context examples 

An instrument that measures changes in the electrical resistance of an electrolyte solution produced by suspended nonconductive particles.

(Particle Count and Size Analyzer, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.

(Ohm, NCI Thesaurus)