"admittance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ədˈmɪt.n̩s/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-admittance.wav [Southern-England] Forms: admittances [plural]
Etymology: From admit + -ance. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|admit|ance}} admit + -ance Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} admittance (countable and uncountable, plural admittances)
  1. The act of admitting. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of admitting): приемане (priemane) (Bulgarian), myöntäminen (Finnish), admisión [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-admittance-en-noun-l6wjfY5i Disambiguation of 'act of admitting': 88 1 2 7 1
  2. Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (permission to enter, the power or right of entrance): достъп (dostǎp) (Bulgarian), вход (vhod) (Bulgarian), kulkulupa (Finnish), kulkuoikeus (Finnish), entrada [feminine] (Spanish), admisión [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-admittance-en-noun-XcdXeKla Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ance Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 22 25 28 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ance: 8 25 25 23 19 Disambiguation of 'permission to enter, the power or right of entrance': 1 81 13 2 2
  3. Actual entrance, reception. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (actual entrance, reception): sisäänkäynti (Finnish), vastaanotto (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-admittance-en-noun-VP9~fylv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ance Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 22 25 28 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ance: 8 25 25 23 19 Disambiguation of 'actual entrance, reception': 1 13 79 4 4
  4. (British, law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Tags: British, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-admittance-en-noun-A9Qt2XUR Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ance Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 22 25 28 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ance: 8 25 25 23 19 Topics: law
  5. (physics) The reciprocal of impedance Wikidata QID: Q214518 Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics Translations (physics: reciprocal of impedance): пълна проводимост (pǎlna provodimost) (Bulgarian), 導納 (Chinese Mandarin), 导纳 (dǎonà) (Chinese Mandarin), admittans [common-gender] (Danish), admitanco (Esperanto), admittanssi (Finnish), admittancia (Hungarian), ammettenza [feminine] (Italian), admitancja [feminine] (Polish), admitancija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), admitancia [feminine] (Spanish), admittans [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-admittance-en-noun-en:Q214518 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ance Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 22 25 28 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ance: 8 25 25 23 19 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'physics: reciprocal of impedance': 1 3 6 3 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: admission, access, entrance, initiation, admittaunce [obsolete] Derived forms: acoustic admittance, air admittance vent, coadmittance, immittance, preadmittance, readmittance, transadmittance

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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "word": "admitanco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "word": "admittanssi"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "word": "admittancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ammettenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "admitancja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "admitancija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "admitancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "physics: reciprocal of impedance",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "admittans"
    }
  ],
  "word": "admittance"
}

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