impedances

noun

Meaning

The act of impeding; that which impedes; a hindrance.
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.
A quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain
(by analogy, usually with “mismatch”) a measure of the opposition caused by differences between two paradigms, especially between object-oriented development and relational databases

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