Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to an ohm or ohms; measuring or measured by the electric unit called an ohm.

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  • adjective Of or relating to, or measured in, ohms.
  • adjective That obeys Ohm's law

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  • adjective of or relating to or measured in ohms

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Examples

  • This is called ohmic (or resistive) heating; it is the same kind of heating that occurs in an electric light bulb or in an electric heater.

    Nuclear fusion power 2009

  • The reason for this starts with surface inhomogeneities that lead to nucleation of the deposition process in one spot, after which ohmic and transport effects lead to further amplification of this inhomogeneity.

    Archive 2010-09-01 Venkat's Energy Blog 2010

  • The reason for this starts with surface inhomogeneities that lead to nucleation of the deposition process in one spot, after which ohmic and transport effects lead to further amplification of this inhomogeneity.

    A Brief History of Batteries- Part 2 Venkat's Energy Blog 2010

  • But as the temperature of heated plasma rises, the resistance decreases and the ohmic heating becomes less effective.

    Nuclear fusion power 2009

  • It appears that the maximum plasma temperature attainable by ohmic heating in a tokamak is 20-30 million degrees Celsius.

    Nuclear fusion power 2009

  • As far as the dangers go, its a lot safer than nuclear fission power (the reactor types that are being used now) because it produces virtually no radiation or nuclear waste (ohmic heating of a plasma in a tokamak replaces the irradiated water if a fission reactor which produces nuclear waste).

    Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Combating Global Warming Does Not Require ‘Economic Castration’ 2006

  • Given differing loads with ohmic, inductive or capacitive external resistance gives rise to the dependence of output voltage on load current as shown in Figure 135.

    8. Transformer Hans-Friedrich Hoyer 1991

  • The windings in the operating field yield an ohmic resistor, the internal resistor R1.

    6. Direct current machines Hans-Friedrich Hoyer 1991

  • Fluorescent lamps can also be operated by direct current voltage, if the lacking a.c. resistance is replaced by an ohmic resistance and the lamp is pole-changed from time to time with the help of an intermediate switch.

    5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • In order to improve the quality of control, an ohmic base load has to be connected to the load exit of the device according to the instructions of the manufacturer (e.g. filament lamps 25 W).

    6. Operating Components for Discharge Lamps Frank Ponemunski 1991

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