impedance

impedance
noun Date: 1886 something that impedes ; hindrance: as a. the apparent opposition in an electrical circuit to the flow of an alternating current that is analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current and that is the ratio of effective electromotive force to the effective current b. the ratio of the pressure to the volume displacement at a given surface in a sound-transmitting medium

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