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  • noun Plural form of resistor.

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Examples

  • The easiest way to find the caps and resistors is to go the Radio Shack in GDL.

    How can I find? Where can I get? 2006

  • Transformers with considerable short-circuit voltage UK have powerful internal resistors, that is to say pronounced voltage changes as load alters.

    8. Transformer Hans-Friedrich Hoyer 1991

  • That responsibility is heavy, and these "resistors" are running from it.

    Matt Bin and American war resisters. CC 2008

  • Instead, these "resistors" ran away, to a place where no Ameican actually listens, and hence can do nothing to stop what they claim is happening.

    Matt Bin and American war resisters. CC 2008

  • Moore of The Distributist Review has this to say about the new measures' incompatibility with Distributivism:This is not Distributist because it means more government control over our lives via who should travel, what they should carry, whether "resistors" will be punished or no.

    Distributivism and Airline Security Repression 2006

  • Other components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors (coils) were connected to that to make a simple circuit with the property that when you fed one kind of signal (the "input") into one pair of terminals, an "output" signal came out another pair, with characteristics different from the input in some specific way.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Flextronics handles sourcing of low dollar items such as resistors, capacitors and some semiconductors.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • The third category is local indigenous suppliers who are building components such as resistors and capacitors, which are often used in locally built equipment.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • The third category is local indigenous suppliers who are building components such as resistors and capacitors, which are often used in locally built equipment.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • What is most disagreeable to many "resistors" of global warming is the fear of climate change being used as a warrant for heavy-handed government intervention.

    New Statesman Naomi Oreskes 2010

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