Admittance

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  • noun. The act of admitting or entering.
  • noun. Permission to enter.
  • noun. The reciprocal of impedance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The reciprocal of the impedance in an alternating-current circuit or the ratio of alternating current divided by the electromotive force consumed by the current. See impedance. The components of admittance are the conductance and the susceptance (which see).
  • noun. The act of admitting.
  • noun. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; hence, actual entrance: as, he gained admittance into the church.
  • noun. Concession; admission; allowance: as, the admittance of an argument.
  • noun. The custom or privilege of being admitted to the society of the great.
  • noun. In law, the giving possession of a copyhold estate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The reciprocal of impedance.
  • noun. The act of admitting.
  • noun. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
  • noun. Concession; admission; allowance.
  • noun. Admissibility.
  • noun. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of admitting.
  • noun. Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
  • noun. Actual entrance, reception.
  • noun. The vulva, especially the labia majora.
  • noun. (law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
  • noun. The reciprocal of impedance
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the right to enter
  • noun. the act of admitting someone to enter
  • Word Usage
    "The error then being so common in practice, of believing that Christ came to gain for us easier terms of admittance into heaven than we had before (whereas, in fact, instead of making obedience less strict, He has enabled us to obey God more strictly, and instead of gaining _easier_ terms of _admittance_, He has gained us"
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