ballast resistor

1. 1.

   a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)

   Synonymsballastbarretter

   Broaderresistor

Questions about ballast resistor

What does ballast resistor mean?

ballast resistor means "a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)".

What is another word for ballast resistor?

Close synonyms include ballast, barretter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballast resistor a common word?

ballast resistor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.