resistivity.

A material property describing how strongly it opposes electrical current for a given geometry.

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Words that belong together

• electrical resistivity
• high resistivity

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Heating changed the alloy’s resistivity.

The sample’s high resistivity ruled it out as wiring.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.