impedance

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• Received-Pronunciation: [ɪmˈpiːdn̩s]
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• Canada, General-American: [ɪmˈpidn̩s]
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From impede + -ance. In sense 2 and sense 3 it was coined by English mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1886.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: inpedantzia — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Bulgarian: импеданс (impedans) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Chinese Mandarin: 阻抗 (zǔkàng) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Czech: impedance — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Dutch: impedantie — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Esperanto: impedanco — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Estonian: impedants — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Finnish: impedanssi — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• French: impédance — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• German: Impedanz — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Greek: εμπέδηση (empédisi) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Greek: σύνθετη αντίσταση (sýntheti antístasi) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Hindi: प्रतिबाधा (pratibādhā) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Hungarian: impedancia — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Indonesian: impedans — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Indonesian: impedansi — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Irish: coisceas — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Italian: impedenza — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Japanese: インピーダンス (inpīdansu) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Korean: 온저항 (onjeohang) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Manx: castid — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Manx: castys — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Māori: haukotinga — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Māori: whakararu — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Persian: امپدانس (ampedâns) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Polish: impedancja — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Portuguese: impedância — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Romanian: impedanță — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Russian: импеда́нс (impedáns) — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Serbo-Croatian: impedancija — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Spanish: impedancia — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current
• Turkish: empedans — physics, measure of opposition to flow of current