Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A measure of the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field within it, equal to the ratio of the intensity of the magnetic field to the magnetic induction of the material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, the specific reluctance of a substance; the ratio of the reluctance of a magnetic substance to that of air: the reciprocal of permeability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) Specific reluctance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quantity equal to the
reciprocal ofmagnetic permeability .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Blend of reluctance and conductivity.]
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