admittance

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admittance

  • /ədˈmɪt.n̩s/

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From admit + -ance. Sense 5 was coined by electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1887.

noun admittances · admittaunce

  1. countable, uncountable The act of admitting.
  2. countable, uncountable Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
  3. countable, uncountable Actual entrance, reception.
  4. UK, countable, uncountable The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
  5. countable, uncountable The reciprocal of impedance.

Similar: admission, access, entrance, initiation

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noun physics: reciprocal of impedance

Españoladmitancia
中文導納 /导纳 dǎonà
Italianoammettenza
עבריתמַתִּירוּת matirút, אַדְמִיטַנְס admitáns

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@misc{admittance_2026,
  title = {admittance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/admittance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}