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reluctance(dictionary)

reluctance (iou)



reluctance noun. M17.
[from RELUCTANT + -ANCE.]
The action of struggling against something; resistance, opposition. Now rare. M17.
Milton The Reluctance..which is in all Kings against Presbyterian and Independent Discipline.
Unwillingness, disinclination; an instance of this. (Foll. by at, to, to do.) M17.
P. G. Wodehouse The maid..showed a reluctance to let Bailey in. Janet Morgan With great reluctance Agatha agreed to divorce him.
Physics. (A measure of) the property of a magnetic circuit of opposing the passage of magnetic flux lines, equal to the ratio of the magnetomotive force to the magnetic flux. L19.