Reluctance
121St. Anselm — St. Anselm † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church; born at Aosta a Burgundian town on the confines of Lombardy, died 21 April, 1109. His father, Gundulf, was a Lombard who had become a… …
122doubt — I (indecision) noun ambiguity, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, confusion, dubitatio, dubito, faltering, feeling of uncertainty, hesitancy, improbability, inability to decide, incertitude, indefiniteness, indeterminateness,… …
123impedance — Synonyms and related words: capacitive reactance, clog, cumbrance, electric resistance, hindrance, impediment, inductive reactance, magnetic reluctance, ohm, ohmage, reactance, reluctance, reluctivity, resistance, skin effect, specific reluctance …
124resistance — Synonyms and related words: Charley, VC, Vietcong, acquired immunity, active immunity, alienation, antagonism, antibody, antigen, antipathy, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, artificial immunity, autism, autistic thinking, averseness, aversion,… …
125unwillingness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Indisposition Nouns unwillingness, indisposition, disinclination, aversion, dislike; nolleity, nolition, renitence; reluctance; indocility, obstinacy, noncompliance, refusal; scrupulousness,… …
126reluctant — 01. She has been [reluctant] to get into a relationship with a guy ever since her last boyfriend dumped her. 02. I am [reluctant] to tell him the truth because I know he ll get angry. 03. It is with great [reluctance] that I announce today my… …
127ὀκνήσει — ὄκνησις reluctance fem nom/voc/acc dual (attic epic) ὀκνήσεϊ , ὄκνησις reluctance fem dat sg (epic) ὄκνησις reluctance fem dat sg (attic ionic) ὀκνέω shrink from aor subj act 3rd sg (epic) ὀκνέω shrink from fut ind mid 2nd sg ὀκνέω shrink from… …
128sturgeon — a proposed unit of magnetic reluctance. Reluctance is the opposite of inductance (see henry). The reluctance in sturgeons equals 1 divided by the inductance in henrys; one sturgeon is also equal to one ampere per weber (A/Wb). The unit honors… …
