MEANING
Describing a material or component whose current is proportional to applied voltage under specified conditions.
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- ohmic conductor
- ohmic contact
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The resistor behaved as an ohmic conductor.
Heating made the contact less reliably ohmic.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a technical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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