How to Use resistor in a Sentence

resistor

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  • Today, changing any single part of the heart—a bolt, a valve, a resistor—can require a new approval process.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The real world has broken down into a Children of Men dystopia in shades of gray, the resistors waiting in food lines dressed in shabby, ripped clothing.
    — Emma Stefansky, Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • Each kit includes products that can be found in a car, such as a sensor, a micro-controller board, a breadboard, a resistor, wires, cables and a passive buzzer.
    — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2021
  • In the case of a coaxial cable, the dielectric is usually chosen such that a 50Ohm resistor will match the properties of the cable.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The simple crossovers--one each for the woofer and tweeter in each speaker--come with the coils, capacitors and resistors hard-wired on perforated breadboards.
    — Rob Sabin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2015
  • The sound is created by transferring an electric current through the organic matter of each plant, which serves as a variable resistor, much like the knobs on an electric guitar.
    — Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Chua coined the term memristor, playing off the words memory and resistor, and from there his work was strictly mathematical.
    — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
  • After modders discovered a way around the Xbox 360’s safeguards with a drill and a resistor, Microsoft built a custom circuit board onto the Xbox One optical drive.
    — Kyle Wiens, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The electricity produced by dynamic braking is spent through the grid resistors.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Instead of physically closing a circuit, as all of the 19th-⁠century inventions did, this one uses an LDR (light dependent resistor).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Instead of coating the resistor with an epoxy, it’s hermetically sealed in a lustrous little glass envelope.
    — Eric Schlaepfer, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The most complicated chip around was still a laboratory model at Fairchild at that time, had about 60 components; that was transistors plus resistors there.
    — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The current manufactured by the generator would be routed past the electric motors in the trucks and directly to a huge grid resistor—essentially a giant toaster—in the roof of the locomotive.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The memristor fills this hole, creating a fourth circuit element that would operate like a resistor with memory.
    — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
  • And these shelves were loaded with bins full of electronic components: resistors, capacitors, transistors, coils, diodes, and lots of other itty bitty things.
    — Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2017
  • Up itself was inspired by a real-life real estate resistor who stayed in her small home amidst extensive commercial development.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Using the stick undermines the effort by building up resistance to the punishment and raising stress levels, especially if the employee is an unconscious, covert resistor to begin with.
    — Jarret Jackson, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Memristors, or memory resistors, are essentially switches that can remember which electric state they were toggled to after their power is turned off.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This high-stability film resistor, about 4 millimeters in diameter, is made in much the same way as its inexpensive carbon-film cousin, but with exacting precision.
    — Eric Schlaepfer, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • This resulted in some fascinatingly half-ass but workable engineering decisions, like having to replicate the placement of an engineer's finger on the motherboard with a resistor pack in order to get the machine to work.
    — Jason Torchinsky, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The AirU program has students building their own particulate-matter sensors, starting with toy blocks, a cheap Arduino computer board, and a photo resistor that scatters light to detect particles of pollution.
    — Jason Plautz, WIRED, 11 July 2018
  • To solve that problem, the Stanford team eliminated the radio-frequency source in the transmitter and replaced it with a commercially available voltage amplifier and feedback resistor.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 14 June 2017
  • Marvelous circuits of prose inductors, resistors and switches simulate ordinary history so nearly as to make readers forget the real thing.
    — Virginia Heffernan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
  • Tesla’s first handful of vehicle models used common resistance heating, which fundamentally is the same as how a heat pad or electric blanket works: resistors accumulate slowed current and grow hot.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The electronic device in this case is the memristor—a resistor with memory and one of the four fundamental electronic elements, along with resistors, inductors and capacitors.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Each one was a combination of three elements: inductors (which store energy in a magnetic field), capacitors (which stores energy in an electric field), and resistors (which restrict the flow of electricity).
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In the 1940s, electronic components such as vacuum tubes and resistors were added, because a fluctuating current flowing through them could be analogous to the behavior of fluids, gases, and other phenomena in the physical world.
    — Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Regardless, earthing cords incorporate a powerful resistor, Orzel points out.
    — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The company, which manufactures capacitors and resistors essential for regulating electrical flows, boosted profit more than five-fold from a year earlier in the first quarter as demand increased and competitors cut output.
    — Yu-Huay Sun, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2018
  • Instead of using engineering’s discrete modules of code, transistors, resistors, and capacitors, synthetic biology builds things from sequences of genetic material.
    — Robert Hart, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017

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