thermal resistor

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   a semiconductor device made of materials whose resistance varies as a function of temperature; can be used to compensate for temperature variation in other components of a circuit

   Synonymsthermistor

   Broadersemiconductor device

Questions about thermal resistor

What does thermal resistor mean?

thermal resistor means "a semiconductor device made of materials whose resistance varies as a function of temperature; can be used to compensate for temperature variation in other components of a circuit".

What is another word for thermal resistor?

Close synonyms include thermistor. 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 thermal resistor a common word?

thermal 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.