resistivity

Other forms of resistivity

plural

resistivities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about resistivity

What does resistivity mean?

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

How many syllables are in resistivity?

resistivity has 5 syllables and divides as re-si-sti-vi-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for resistivity?

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

resistivity 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.