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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Electronics The imaginary part of the complex representation of admittance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In electricity, in alternating-current circuits, the wattless component of admittance defined as the ratio of the wattless current divided by the electro-motive force. See admittance, 6.
Wiktionary
- n. physics the imaginary component of the admittance of an alternating current circuit
Etymologies
- (electric) suscept(ibility), a measure of the ease of polarization of a dielectric + -ance. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“Other measurable parameters for this LCR meter include dissipation factor, quality factor, conductance, reactance, susceptance and phase angle.”
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