Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A measure of the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field within it, equal to the ratio of the intensity of the magnetic field to the magnetic induction of the material.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In electricity, the specific reluctance of a substance; the ratio of the reluctance of a magnetic substance to that of air: the reciprocal of permeability.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Elec.) Specific reluctance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quantity equal to the reciprocal of magnetic permeability.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Blend of reluctance and conductivity.]

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