im·ped·ance
n 1 : 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 2 : the ratio of the pressure to the volume displacement at a given surface in a sound-transmitting medium 3 : opposition to blood flow in the circulatory system .
Similar sounding terms: im·po·tence im·po·ten·cy
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