Resistances Synonyms and Antonyms

Resistances Sentence Examples

• In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

• In practice the resistances r, r' are 9 Earth FIG.

• The leakage through the insulator of the cable is compensated for by connecting high resistances between different points of the strip conductor and the earth coating.

• Faults or any other irregularity in the cable may be represented by putting resistances of the proper kind into the artificial line.

• If the attack of a parasite is met by the formation of some substance in the protoplasm which is chemo- tactically repulsive to the invader, it may be totally incapable of penetrating the cell, even though equipped with a whole armoury of cytases, diastatic and other enzymes, and poisons which would easily overcome the more passive resistances offered by mere cell-walls and cell-contents of other plants, the protoplasm of which forms bodies chemotactically attractive to the Fungus.