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admittance

noun
/ədˈmɪt.n̩s/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from admittō
  2. derived from admettre
  3. inherited from admitten
  4. suffixed as admittance — “admit + ance”

Definitions

  1. The act of admitting.

  2. Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.

  3. Actual entrance, reception.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.

    2. The reciprocal of impedance.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at admittance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at admittance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at admittance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA