admittance

American  

[ad-mit-ns] / ædˈmɪt ns /

noun

1. permission or right to enter.

   admittance into the exhibit room.

   Synonyms:

   access

2. an act of admitting.

3. actual entrance.

4. 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

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admittance British  

/ ədˈmɪtəns /

noun

1. the right or authority to enter

2. the act of giving entrance

3.  y.  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

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admittance Scientific  

/ ăd-mĭt′ns /

1. 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.

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Related Words

See entrance ¹.

Other Word Forms

• readmittance
  noun

Etymology

Origin of admittance

First recorded in 1535–45; admit + -ance

Example Sentences

Admittance to Davis’ event is notoriously challenging to receive.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2024

Ben Chasny records as Six Organs of Admittance; Rick Tomlinson records as, among other names, Voice of the Seven Woods.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

Admittance to the campus auditorium had been closely restricted, and several candidates not invited to participate — including Gina Viola, Alex Gruenenfelder, Craig Greiwe and Ramit Varma — protested outside before the debate.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2022

I propose that it should read like the legend over Dante's Inferno: "No Admittance Except on Business."

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2020

We entered a door marked "Office—No Admittance Except on Business," and climbed a steep flight of stairs to pass into a railed-off outer room full of desks and typewriters.

From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack