admittance

• admittaunce (obsolete)

From admit +‎ -ance. Sense 5 was coined by electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1887.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ədˈmɪt.n̩s/

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admittance (countable and uncountable, plural admittances)

1. The act of admitting.
2. Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
3. Actual entrance, reception.
4. (British, law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
6. (physics) The reciprocal of impedance.

• admission, access, entrance, initiation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.tɑ̃s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

admittance f (plural admittances)

1. (physics) admittance (the reciprocal of impedance)

• “admittance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012