admittance

English

Alternative forms

• admittaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ədˈmɪt.n̩s/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

• admission, access, entrance, initiation

Derived terms

• acoustic admittance
• air admittance vent
• coadmittance
• immittance
• preadmittance
• readmittance
• transadmittance

Translations

act of admitting

• Bulgarian: приемане (bg) (priemane)
• Finnish: myöntäminen (fi)
• Spanish: admisión (es) f

permission to enter, the power or right of entrance

• Bulgarian: достъп (bg) (dostǎp), вход (bg) (vhod)
• Finnish: kulkulupa (fi), kulkuoikeus
• Spanish: entrada (es) f, admisión (es) f

actual entrance, reception

• Finnish: sisäänkäynti (fi), vastaanotto (fi)

UK legal: act of giving possession of a copyhold estate

physics: reciprocal of impedance

• Bulgarian: пълна проводимост (pǎlna provodimost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 導納 / 导纳 (zh) (dǎonà)

• Danish: admittans (da) c
• Esperanto: admitanco
• Finnish: admittanssi (fi)
• Hungarian: admittancia (hu)
• Italian: ammettenza (it) f
• Polish: admitancja (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian: admitancija (sh) f
• Spanish: admitancia (es) f
• Swedish: admittans (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.tɑ̃s/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

admittance f (plural admittances)

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

Further reading

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