Usually means: Resistance to current in circuits.
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  1. impedance: Merriam-Webster
  2. impedance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impedance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impedance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impedance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impedance, impedance: Wordnik
  7. impedance: Wiktionary
  8. impedance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. impedance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. impedance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. impedance: Dictionary.com
  12. Impedance (accelerator physics), Impedance (disambiguation), Impedance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. impedance: Rhymezone
  14. impedance: FreeDictionary.org
  15. impedance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. impedance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. impedance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  2. Impedance: Energy Dictionary

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  1. impedance: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. impedance: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
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  4. impedance: Encyclopedia

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  1. impedance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. impedance: Medical dictionary

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  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Impedance: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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  1. impedance: Urban Dictionary

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  1. impedance: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. impedance: Electronics
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  9. IMPEDANCE (Z): Power Engineering
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of impeding; that which impedes; a hindrance.
noun:  (physics) 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.
noun:  (physics) A quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain
noun:  (physics, usually with “mechanical”) a measure of opposition to motion of something subjected to a force; the ratio of force to velocity treated as complex quantities.
noun:  (physics, usually with “acoustic” or “sound”) the ratio of sound pressure to volume flow rate treated as complex quantities.

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