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A resistor whose resistance changes substantially with temperature.
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- a thermistor probe
- thermistor resistance
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The thermistor probe registered the rise inside the casing.
They checked the thermistor resistance against the calibration curve.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular thermistor; plural thermistors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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