admittance

admittance

English

Alternative forms

• admittaunce (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ədˈmɪt.n̩s/

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. (Britain, law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
5. (physics) The reciprocal of impedance

Synonyms

• admission, access, entrance, initiation

Derived terms

• air admittance vent

 

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) 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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.tɑ̃s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

admittance f (plural admittances)

1. (physics) admittance

Further reading

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