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countable and uncountable, plural reluctances
Unwillingness to do something. examples
Hesitancy in taking some action. examples
(archaic) Defiance, disobedience. quotations
No more be mention’d then of violence / Against our selves, and wilful barrenness, / That cuts us off fom hope, and favours onely / Rancor and pride, impatience and despite, / Reluctance against God and his just yoke / Laid on our Necks.
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 1041–6
(physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit. quotations examples
That is to say, the total number of ampere-hours, including the drop of gilbertage, due to magnetic flux traversing the reluctance of the circuit, must be equal to zero.
1903, The Electrical World and Engineer, volume 42, page 369