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Electrical component
Answer for the clue "Electrical component ", 8 letters:
resistor
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A ' resistor ' is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element. Resistors may be used to reduce current flow, and, at the same time, may act to lower voltage levels within circuits. In electronic ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army. 2 An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But for every pure resistor one or more peo-ple are always ready to champion change from the outset. ▪ But in any seri-ous change effort, it usually takes no more than several months for pure resistors to show their stripes. ...
Usage examples of resistor.
First he showed us his transmitter circuit: a small board loaded with resistors, capacitors, operational amplifiers, and analog multiplier chips.
Spock was kneeling among stacks of microcircuits, wires, resistors, capacitors, and other antique electronic paraphernalia.
Suppose the load is a resistor, again the most vanilla choice, and instead of the usual three channels for current flow in each junction, assume each has only two pathways, one for supercurrent and another for normal current.
She picked up a set of gloves and some tools for her father, and then she went into the little nook where all of the resistors, capacitors, and inductors hung in bubble packs.
Spock was kneeling among stacks of microcircuits, wires, resistors, capacitors, and other antique electronic paraphernalia.
He pulled an old envelope out of his pocket, together with an assortment of resistors and condensers that seemed to have got entangled in his handkerchief, and began to do some figuring.
She had purchased a book on the subject months ago in Boston and had been reading it in free moments, learning about all the mysterious hieroglyphs that made up a circuit diagram: resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
The whole thing was mounted on its supporting pillars with ceramic resistors, so I knew it was carrying juice.
I recognized resistors and transistors but most of it was incomprehensible.
The convolver that she needed was little more than a nonlinear oscillator, and there were resistors and capacitors in the signal generator that could perform dual functions.
On the bench where Henry had been working there was a gigantic parts rack, row on row of little plastic drawers containing banana plugs, wires, leads, clips, resistors, capacitors, transistors.
Her hair was cornrowed between neat furrows of shiny brown skin, with antique resistors woven in at random intervals, little cylinders of brown phenolic resin ringed with color-coded bands of paint.
What it developed in that interlude was basic electronics, from simple resistors and capacitors right up to thermionic valves.
We might see what results we get by coupling the frequency analyzer to the variable resistor.