How to Use resistor in a Sentence

resistor

noun

• 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
• When the bus is idle, or when a 1 is being transmitted, pull-up resistors hold the lines at the voltage level indicating a logical high.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024