impedance

/ษชmหˆpiหdnฬฉs/

IPA: /IH0 M P IY1 D AH0 N S/

noun
  1. 1

    The act of impeding; that which impedes; a hindrance.

  2. 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. 3

    A quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain

  4. 4

    (by analogy, usually with โ€œmismatchโ€) a measure of the opposition caused by differences between two paradigms, especially between object-oriented development and relational databases

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