The term "resistance" is used both to refer the Kirchhoff index of a graph (Lukovits et al. 1999) and to any of the resistance distances between two vertices of a graph.
Graph Resistance
See also
Kirchhoff Index, Resistance DistanceExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Lukovits, I.; Nikolić, S.; and Trinajstić, N. "Resistance Distance in Regular Graphs." Int. J. Quan. Chem. 71, 217-225, 1999.Cite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Graph Resistance." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/GraphResistance.html