resistivity

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti

Proto-Italic *sistō

Latin sistō

Latin resisterelbor.

Anglo-Norman resisterbor.

Middle English resisten

English resist

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English resistive

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂tsder.

Latin -itās

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English resistivity

From resistive + -ity.

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Noun

resistivity (countable and uncountable, plural resistivities)

1. (electricity) The resistance offered at a particular temperature by an electrical conductor of any given material in a cube of unit length, expressed in ohm-metres (Ωm) in the metric system of measurement.
2. (thermodynamics) The reciprocal of thermal conductivity, having SI unit: m K W^-1

Derived terms

• elastoresistivity
• magnetoresistivity
• microresistivity
• piezoresistivity
• transresistivity
• volume resistivity

Translations

capacity of resistance to electricity

• Bulgarian: специфично съпротивление n (specifično săprotivlenie)
• Danish: resistivitet c
• Finnish: ominaisvastus, resistiivisyys (fi)
• French: résistivité (fr) f
• Galician: resistividade (gl) f
• Georgian: წინაღობა (c̣inaɣoba), ხვედრითი წინააღმდეგობა (xvedriti c̣inaaɣmdegoba)
• German: spezifischer Widerstand m
• Italian: resistività (it) f
• Polish: rezystywność f
• Russian: удельное электрическое сопротивление n (udelʹnoje električeskoje soprotivlenije)
• Spanish: resistividad f
• Tagalog: kasagwilan

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1914), “resistance”, in The Century Dictionary […], volumes IV (P–Simulant), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5105.
• Ingo W. D. Hackh (1929), A Chemical Dictionary : Containing the Words Generally Used in Chemistry, and Many of the Terms Used in the Related Sciences … Based on Recent Chemical Literature, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son, entry “specific”, page 678