Definition of "resistive" [re•sist•ive]

• Of, tending toward, or marked by resistance: a person resistive to change. (adjective)

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• "Jill stopped going to school late in the sixth grade, at which time she was described as resistive to authority, fighting rules at school and at home."
• "Dr. Jay A. Switzer and his colleagues at Missouri S and T have said that they have constructed a type of superlattice that shows "unique low-to-high and high-to-low resistance switching that may be applicable to the fabrication of an emerging memory device known as resistive random access memory," or RRA.."
• "Archos chose a so-called resistive sensor, which isn't as sensitive as the capacitive type used in the iPhone."