impedance
/ษชmหpiหdnฬฉs/IPA: /IH0 M P IY1 D AH0 N S/
noun
- 1
The act of impeding; that which impedes; a hindrance.
- 2
A measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation of its resistance, and inductive and capacitive reactances; the ratio of voltage to current treated as complex quantities.
- 3
A quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain
- 4
(by analogy, usually with โmismatchโ) a measure of the opposition caused by differences between two paradigms, especially between object-oriented development and relational databases
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