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What is a resistor?

What is a resistor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
  2. An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.
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The potential coil of the wattmeter generally has a high-resistance resistor connected in series with it.
If you use a resistor less than 100 ohms you'll know it because it will get hot.
Locating a capacitor near a hot transistor, resistor or IC will shorten its life span to a couple of years.
There are multiamplifier schemes that have both high input resistance and a gain that can be varied by changing one resistor.
The resistor will absorb some of the voltage across it when we place it in series with the resistor.
Etchants are commonly employed in the manufacture of resistor boards where films of gold, nickel, or chromium are to be etched.

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