reluctance

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Noun

reluctance (countable and uncountable, plural reluctances)

Unwillingness to do something.
Hesitancy in taking some action.
(physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.

Derived terms

reluctance motor

Related terms

reluctant, adjective
reluctantly, adverb

Translations

unwillingness to do something

Chinese:
Mandarin: 勉强 (zh)
Danish: utilbøjelighed c
Dutch: tegenzin (nl) m
Esperanto: sindetenemo
Estonian: vastumeelsus
Finnish: vastahakoisuus (fi), haluttomuus (fi)
French: réticence (fr) f
German: Widerstreben (de) n
Greek: επιφυλακτικότητα (el) f (epifylaktikótita)
Irish: drogall m

Italian: riluttanza (it)
Maori: horokukū, koroukore
Norwegian:
Bokmål: motvilje m

Nynorsk: motvilje m
Polish: niechęć (pl) f
Portuguese: relutância (pt) f, hesitação (pt) f
Romanian: repulsie (ro) f
Russian: неохо́та (ru) f (neoxóta), нежела́ние (ru) n (neželánije)
Spanish: reluctancia (es) f
Turkish: isteksizlik (tr)

hesitancy in taking some action

Chinese:
Mandarin: 犹豫 (zh)
Czech: váhavost f
Dutch: tegenzin (nl) m

Finnish: haluttomuus (fi)
Portuguese: relutância (pt) f, hesitação (pt) f
Romanian: ezitare (ro) f, codire (ro) f

magnetic resistance

Catalan: reluctància
Chinese:
Mandarin: 磁力阻抗
Dutch: magnetische weerstand
Finnish: reluktanssi

French: réluctance (fr) f
Portuguese: relutância (pt) f
Romanian: reluctanță (ro) f
Russian: ^{(please verify)} магни́тное сопротивле́ние n (magnítnoje soprotivlénije)
Spanish: reluctancia (es) f

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Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} reluctantia

Irish: ^{(please verify)} leisciúlacht f, ^{(please verify)} aimhleisce f, ^{(please verify)} dochma m, ^{(please verify)} doic f, ^{(please verify)} doicheall m, ^{(please verify)} doilíos m, ^{(please verify)} draighean m, ^{(please verify)} drogall m, ^{(please verify)} leisce f, ^{(please verify)} leointíocht f, ^{(please verify)} mífhonn m, ^{(please verify)} neamhfhonn m, ^{(please verify)} neamhthoil f, ^{(please verify)} scóchas m, ^{(please verify)} staigínteacht f, ^{(please verify)} támáilteacht f

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