How to Use resistive in a Sentence

resistive

adjective
  • What are these if not resistive practices against evil?
    — Emily Chamlee-Wright, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Resistive magnets are a type of electromagnet used for research.
    — Gary Fineout, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • They were handmade with a resistive carbon element held between clips in a glass enclosure.
    — Richard Brewster, IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2018
  • Metamorphic and igneous rocks are denser and less porous and so are more electrically resistive.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • 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
  • The coil springs act not only as a flexible slider but also as a resistive positional sensor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The coil springs act not only as a flexible slider but also as a resistive positional sensor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Those smaller, more dense interconnects are more resistive, leading to a potential waste of power.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Simple resistive loads, like old-school incandescent lightbulbs, don’t affect that perfect synchrony.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Push more current through a wire and the resistive losses will increase, reducing efficiency and creating heat that can damage the motor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 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 prototype neuromorphic chip uses a one megabit bank of resistive RAM built on top of a processor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2017
  • Muscle hypertrophy occurs when the diameters of muscle fibers increase as a result of resistive training.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Another layer of interconnects links the nanotubes up to a layer of resistive RAM.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2017
  • So from the utility’s perspective, the homes were now either generators or resistive loads, making the job of voltage control a lot easier for the utility.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This helped achieve memristor endurances of about 5 million cycles of switching, roughly on par with existing resistive RAM and phase-change memories.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The future of computing The device utilizes two 64-by-64 arrays of programmable resistive memory cells.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Inside the pedal, LEDs controlled by microprocessors shine on resistive elements.
    — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Bulk passivation treatments significantly reduced these resistive regions throughout the interior of the film.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But liquid-helium temperatures made cryotrons challenging to work with, and the time required for materials to transition from a superconducting to a resistive state limited switching speeds.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • Carbon nanotube transistors and resistive RAM can both be fabricated at about 200 degrees Celsius.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2017
  • Similarly, resistive electric heating also becomes competitive in most of Europe following electricity tax reforms.
    — Luis D’acosta, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Instead of using steel as the resistive material, the Stanford scientists created a reactor using an electrically conductive ceramic metamaterial.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2024
  • 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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