Usually means: Opposes flow of electrical current.
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  1. resistive: Merriam-Webster
  2. resistive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. resistive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. resistive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. resistive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Resistive, resistive: Wordnik
  7. resistive: Wiktionary
  8. resistive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. resistive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. resistive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Resistive, resistive: Dictionary.com
  12. Resistive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Resistive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. resistive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. resistive: Rhymezone
  16. Resistive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. resistive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. resistive: FreeDictionary.org
  19. resistive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. resistive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. resistive: Legal dictionary

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  1. resistive: Encyclopedia

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  1. resistive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (resistive)

adjective:  (rare) Tending to resist something or someone; resistant.
adjective:  (electronics) Acting as a resistor; resisting the passage of electrical current.
adjective:  (electronics) Of an electronic circuit: consisting only of resistors and power sources; having no inductance and capacitance.

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