Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The imaginary part of the complex representation of admittance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics the
imaginary component of theadmittance of analternating current circuit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[(electric) suscept(ibility), a measure of the ease of polarization of a dielectric + –ance.]
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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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