adjective
- not following Ohm’s law; describing electrical components or materials whose resistance varies with voltage or current
Usage: physics; electronics
Examples
- Diodes are nonohmic devices because their resistance changes with applied voltage.
- The nonohmic behavior of the semiconductor made circuit analysis more complex.
- Unlike resistors, transistors exhibit nonohmic characteristics.
- The graph showed a nonohmic relationship between current and voltage.
- Nonohmic materials do not have a constant resistance value.
- The engineer had to account for the nonohmic properties of the LED.