How to Use resistive in a Sentence

resistive

adjective
Definition of resistivenext
  • One of the many reasons for that is that using the heater to warm the cabin—particularly on EVs that have resistive heaters—sucks a lot of juice.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The laptop's resistive touchpad has a 60 percent larger area, and it can be used while wearing gloves or during rain.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 26 May 2022
  • That number goes way down when playing a game like Astro’s Playroom, though, thanks to extensive use of the DualSense speakers, rumble, and resistive triggers.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Metamorphic and igneous rocks are denser and less porous and so are more electrically resistive.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • But the protests also established the foundation for modern resistive actions, like Standing Rock and Mauna Kea.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Resistive magnets are a type of electromagnet used for research.
    — Gary Fineout, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • It’s hard to imagine Wednesday nights without the resistive spirit and depths of ancestral pain that Underground has provided.
    — Treva B. Lindsey, The Root, 6 June 2017
  • The resistive exercise device is much better than the previous versions, and does a fantastic job of keeping us fit from a bone and muscle perspective.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The team found that risk varies considerably from region to region, with some electrically resistive rocks boosting the regional geoelectric hazard by a factor of a hundred.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Hurst realized that when a finger touches a screen composed of numerous thin resistive layers with thin gaps between them, a computer can read the location of the resulting voltage and actuate the command.
    — Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 24 June 2020
  • For patients looking to strengthen atrophied muscles, Dr. CaRo can switch between assistive and resistive modes to accommodate patients looking to regain strength and dexterity in their limbs.
    — Time, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The Clarity electric has a single water-cooling system that covers the battery pack, power electronics, and motor, and while all Clarity models have resistive heating, in the Clarity electric it’s supplemented by a heat pump.
    — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 29 June 2017
  • Inside the pedal, LEDs controlled by microprocessors shine on resistive elements.
    — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Similarly, resistive electric heating also becomes competitive in most of Europe following electricity tax reforms.
    — Luis D’acosta, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Helion estimates that realistic restrictions on physical expansion ratio and resistive circuit elements limit practical efficiencies to 85%.
    — James Conca, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021

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