admittance
/ədˈmɪt(ə)ns
/noun [mass noun]
1The process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place or institution: people were unable to gain admittance to the hall...
- Despite desperate attempts by the Carlow branch of the ISPCA to gain admittance to the site to save the birds, remarkably no one in county Carlow had a key to open the site's locked gates.
- The unfairness of it is even further emphasised when it comes to people queuing to gain admittance to nightclubs or pubs.
- In particular, the attempts of women to gain admittance to professional bodies have been documented in detail.
Synonyms
entry, right of entry, permission to enter, admission, entrance, access, right of access, ingress, entrée, acceptance
2 Physics A measure of electrical conduction, numerically equal to the reciprocal of the impedance.A simple elastic model was then used to calculate theoretical admittance for different elastic thicknesses.
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