electric resistance

Questions about electric resistance

What does electric resistance mean?

electric resistance means "a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms".

What is another word for electric resistance?

Close synonyms include electrical resistance, impedance, resistance, resistivity, ohmic resistance. 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 electric resistance a common word?

electric resistance 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.