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reluctances

reluctances is the plural of reluctance.

Meaning of reluctance

Noun

reluctance (countable and uncountable, plural reluctances)

  1. Unwillingness to do something.
    • Our new dog shows reluctance to go on walks, preferring to be indoors.
  2. Hesitancy in taking some action.
  3. (archaic) Defiance, disobedience.
    • No more be mention’d then of violence / Against our selves, and wilful barrenness, / That cuts us off fom hope, and favours onely / Rancor and pride, impatience and despite, / Reluctance against God and his just yoke / Laid on our Necks.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  4. That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
    • That is to say, the total number of ampere-hours, including the drop of gilbertage, due to magnetic flux traversing the reluctance of the circuit, must be equal to zero.1903, The Electrical World and Engineer, volume 42, page 369

Questions about reluctances

What is reluctances the plural of?
Reluctances is the plural of reluctance.

Words near reluctances in the dictionary

  1. relucent
  2. reluct
  3. reluctance
  4. reluctance motor
  5. reluctance motors
  6. reluctances
  7. reluctancies
  8. reluctancy
  9. reluctant
  10. reluctant dragon
  11. reluctant dragons

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