ohmic resistance

Questions about ohmic resistance

What does ohmic resistance mean?

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

What is another word for ohmic resistance?

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

ohmic 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.