Admittance vs. Reciprocal — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Admittance and Reciprocal
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Admittance
In electrical engineering, admittance is a measure of how easily a circuit or device will allow a current to flow. It is defined as the reciprocal of impedance, analogous to how conductance & resistance are defined.
Reciprocal
Done, given, felt, or owed in return
A reciprocal invitation to lunch.
Admittance
The act of admitting or entering
Approved the admittance of new students into the college.
Reciprocal
Existing, experienced, or done on both sides
Reciprocal agreements between nations.
Reciprocal admiration between friends.
Admittance
Permission to enter
A pass that guarantees admittance to the nightclub.
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Reciprocal
(Grammar) Expressing mutual action or relationship. Used of some verbs and compound pronouns.
Admittance
Symbol Y(Electricity) The reciprocal of impedance.
Reciprocal
(Mathematics) Of or relating to the reciprocal of a quantity.
Admittance
The act of admitting.
Reciprocal
(Physiology) Of or relating to a neuromuscular phenomenon in which the excitation of one group of muscles is accompanied by the inhibition of another.
Admittance
Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
Reciprocal
(Genetics) Of or designating a pair of crosses in which the male or female parent in one cross is of the same genotype or phenotype as the complementary female or male parent in the other cross.
Admittance
Actual entrance, reception.
Reciprocal
Something that is reciprocal to something else.
Admittance
The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
Reciprocal
(Mathematics) A number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together their product is 1. For example, the reciprocal of 7 is 1/7 ; the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2 .
Admittance
(physics) The reciprocal of impedance
Reciprocal
Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
Reciprocal love
Reciprocal duties
Admittance
The act of admitting.
Reciprocal
Mutually interchangeable.
Admittance
Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
To gain admittance into the house.
He desires admittance to the king.
To give admittance to a thought of fear.
Reciprocal
(grammar) Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
Admittance
Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
Reciprocal
(math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
Admittance
Admissibility.
Reciprocal
Done, given, felt, or owed in return
A reciprocal invitation to lunch
Admittance
The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
Reciprocal
(arithmetic) The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.
Admittance
The reciprocal of impedance.
Reciprocal
(grammar) A construction expressing mutual action.
Admittance
The right to enter
Reciprocal
Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
Admittance
The act of admitting someone to enter;
The surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic
Reciprocal
Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.
Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.
Reciprocal
Mutually interchangeable.
These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
Reciprocal
Reflexive; - applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.
Reciprocal
Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.
Reciprocal
That which is reciprocal to another thing.
Corruption is a reciprocal to generation.
Reciprocal
The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus ¼ is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a + b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.
Reciprocal
Something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else;
Risk is the reciprocal of safety
Reciprocal
(mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7
Reciprocal
Hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype
Reciprocal
Concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return;
Reciprocal aid
Reciprocal trade
Mutual respect
Reciprocal privileges at other clubs
Reciprocal
Of or relating to or suggestive of complementation;
Interchangeable electric outlets
Reciprocal
Of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function;
The reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a
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