How to Use resistor in a Sentence

resistor

noun
  • These resistors act as both heaters and sensors.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • For starters, many of the resistor values used will seem a little off.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2023
  • The hard part was that these resistors are very imprecise.
    — Richard Brewster, IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2018
  • Achieving the right balance means getting the values of the resistors just right.
    — Richard Brewster, IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2018
  • 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 third resistor is attached to the trigger’s input, with the coil providing feedback.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The Revere bowl was hidden for decades by the descendants of the secret resistors whose names are engraved on its surface.
    — Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026
  • During this process, the team added things like transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The analog input voltage is fed into a five-tap logarithmic resistor divider, whose taps drive the thyratron grids.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019
  • The electricity produced by dynamic braking is spent through the grid resistors.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 chip the Stanford researchers developed is known as a 1-transistor-1-resistor memory cell.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2017
  • An electrical pulse heats the resistor, which flash-boils a thin layer of the ink, forming a rapidly expanding vapor bubble that pushes a droplet of ink out through the orifice.
    — Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Low-loss polypropylene capacitors are used for top-tier transparency, alongside low-inductance resistors.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • SMDs allow for far more tiny chips, resistors, and other bits to be attached to boards by their tiny pins, flat contacts, solder balls, or other connections.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Made of an array of precision resistors configured for true multibit conversion.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Build a huge version of one of the most iconic and surprisingly versatile integrated circuits of all time from transistor and resistors.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • More importantly, its Gabe’s mom and dad who give this ambitious genre resistor its emotionally consequential center.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
  • These objects are juxtaposed alongside digital detritus — circuit boards, resistors — that line the wooden boxes like wallpaper.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • 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

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