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Offering resistance, especially electrical resistance, or operating by means of it.
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- a resistive load
- a resistive sensor
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The heater acted as a largely resistive load.
A resistive sensor changed its output as the surface warmed.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Relational adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not applicable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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