admittance.

1. Permission, access, or the act of being allowed into a place.

2. A complex electrical quantity describing how readily alternating current flows, equal to the reciprocal of impedance.

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Words that belong together

• refuse admittance
• gain admittance
• no admittance

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The guard refused admittance without explaining who had given the order.

She gained admittance only after the caretaker recognized the old key.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.