resistor

English

Three resistors (electric component).

Etymology

From resist +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)

Noun

resistor (plural resistors)

1. One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
3. (electronics) An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.
   • 2021 December, “Snap Circuits Classic”, in Snap Circuits‎^[1], Elenco, pages 13, 27:

     The resistor limits the current and prevents damage to the LED. […] It is possible to pick resistors and capacitors that will make the pitch higher than humans can hear.

Hyponyms

• tax resister

Derived terms

an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it

• ballast resistor
• carbon resistor
• chemiresistor
• light-dependent resistor
• magnetoresistor
• memristor
• microresistor
• nanoresistor
• nonresistor
• pellistor
• photoresistor
• piezoresistor
• pull-down resistor
• pull-up resistor
• resistorless
• thermistor
• thermoresistor
• transistor
• varistor

Translations

one who resists

• Catalan: resistent m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反抗者 (zh) (fǎnkàngzhě)

• Danish: modstandsmand c (World War II)
• Dutch: verzetsstrijder (nl) m
• Faroese: mótstøðumaður m
• Finnish: vastarintamies
• French: résistant (fr) m
• German: Widerstandskämpfer (de) m, Widerständler (de) m
• Greek: αντιστασιακός (el) m (antistasiakós)
• Lithuanian: pasipriešinimo narys m
• Portuguese: resistente (pt) m or f
• Slovak: odporca m
• Slovene: upornik (sl) m
• Swedish: motståndsman c, motståndskämpe c

electric component

• Armenian: ռեզիստոր (hy) (ṙezistor)
• Asturian: resistencia llétrica f
• Bulgarian: съпротивление (bg) n (sǎprotivlenie), резистор m (rezistor)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: resistència (ca) f, resistor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電阻 / 电阻 (zh) (diànzǔ), 電阻器 / 电阻器 (zh) (diànzǔqì)

• Czech: rezistor m, odpor (cs) m
• Danish: modstand c, resistor c
• Dutch: weerstand (nl) m
• Esperanto: rezistilo
• Estonian: takisti (et)
• Finnish: vastus (fi), resistori (fi)
• French: résistance (fr) f, résistor (fr) m
• Galician: resistencia (gl) f
• Georgian: რეზისტორი (rezisṭori)
• German: Widerstand (de) m
• Greek: αντίσταση (el) f (antístasi)
• Hebrew: נגד (he) m (nagad)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: viðnám n, viðnámstæki n, mótstaða f
• Indonesian: resistor (id)
• Italian: resistore (it) m
• Japanese: 抵抗器 (ja) (ていこうき, teikōki)
• Khmer: រេស៊ីស្ទ័រ (reisiistɔə)
• Korean: 저항기(抵抗器) (ko) (jeohanggi)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: varžas f
• Malay: perintang (ms)
• Māori: parenga iahiko, parenga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: opornik (pl) m, rezystor (pl) m
• Portuguese: resistor (pt) m
• Romanian: rezistor (ro) n
• Russian: рези́стор (ru) m (rezístor)
• Serbo-Croatian: отпорник m, otpornik (sh) m
• Slovak: odpor m
• Slovene: upornik (sl) m, upor (sl) m
• Spanish: resistencia (es) f, resistor (es) m
• Swedish: resistor (sv) c, motstånd (sv) n
• Tagalog: panagwil, panakwil
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: điện trở (vi) (電阻)

Anagrams

• Rossiter, Tres Rios, roisters, sorriest, storiers

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʁaˈsisd̥ʌ]

Noun

resistor c (singular definite resistoren, plural indefinite resistorer)

1. (engineering) resistor (component with constant resistance)

Declension

Declension of resistor

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	resistor	resistoren	resistorer	resistorerne
genitive	resistors	resistorens	resistorers	resistorernes

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, from Dutch resistor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈsɪstɔr/
• Rhymes: -tɔr, -ɔr, -r
• Hyphenation: ré‧sis‧tor

Noun

résistor (plural resistor-resistor)

1. (electronics) resistor: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it

   Synonyms: hambatan, tahanan

Synonyms

• perintang (Standard Malay)

Related terms

• resistans
• resistansi

Further reading

• “resistor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English resistor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zisˈtoʁ/ [he.zisˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zisˈtoʁ/ [he.zisˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zisˈtoɾ/ [he.zisˈtoɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.ziʃˈtoʁ/ [χe.ziʃˈtoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zisˈtoɻ/ [he.zisˈtoɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.ziʃˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.ziʃˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.ziʃˈto.ɾi/

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: re‧sis‧tor

Noun

resistor m (plural resistores)

1. resistor (component that implements electrical resistance)

   Synonym: resistência

Further reading

• “resistor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “resistor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “resistor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “resistor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /resisˈtoɾ/ [re.sisˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: re‧sis‧tor

Noun

resistor m (plural resistores)

1. resistor (component that implements electrical resistance)

   Synonym: resistencia

Further reading

• “resistor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Noun

resistor c

1. (electronics) a resistor

   Synonym: motstånd

Declension

Declension of resistor

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	resistor	resistors
	definite	resistorn	resistorns
plural	indefinite	resistorer	resistorers
	definite	resistorerna	resistorernas

References

• resistor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• resistor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• resistor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)