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admittance
[ ad-mit-ns ]
noun
- permission or right to enter:
admittance into the exhibit room.
Synonyms:
- an act of admitting.
- actual entrance.
- Electricity. the measure of the ability of a circuit to conduct an alternating current, consisting of two components, conductance and susceptance; the reciprocal of impedance, expressed in mhos. : Y
admittance
/ əˈɪəԲ /
noun
- the right or authority to enter
- the act of giving entrance
- electrical engineering the reciprocal of impedance, usually measured in siemens. It can be expressed as a complex quantity, the real part of which is the conductance and the imaginary part the susceptance y
admittance
/ ă-ĭ′ns /
- A measure of the ability of a circuit or component to allow current flow when exposed to AC voltages (its AC conductance ). It is equal to the reciprocal of the impedance of the circuit, just as conductivity is equal to the reciprocal of resistance , and is similarly measured in mhos.
Other 51Թ Forms
- a·tԳ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of admittance1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The news of Davidson’s most recent admittance comes as venues in Florida and New Jersey announced the comedian’s upcoming shows there have been canceled due to “scheduling conflicts.”
It wasn’t an actual admittance that he relayed the pitch to Moore on the 3-2 cutter.
Last month, the US used its veto as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council to block a widely backed Algerian resolution seeking Palestine's admittance as a state, calling it "premature".
WallyGator, the emotional support alligator who enjoyed a moment of fame last year when he was denied admittance to a Major League Baseball game, is back in the news.
The dash through central Paris celebrated the dexterous and, yes, by their own admittance, sometimes famously moody men and women without whom France wouldn’t be France.
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