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† perˈmittance Obs.
[f. permit v. + -ance: cf. admittance.]
1. = permission 1.
1580H. Gifford Gilloflowers Ep. Ded. (Grosart) 27 Hauing by your Worships fauourable permittance, conuenient oportunity in your seruice. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. vi. 3 Our purposes must be submitted to Gods permittance. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. v. v. (1727) 296 When this System of Air comes, by Divine Permittance, to be corrupted with poisonous, acrimonious Steams. 1912Housemaster's Lett. 124 The wilful misuse of them or the callous permittance of them to go blunt and to rust.
2. Physics. = capacitance.
1887O. Heaviside in Electrician 3 June 79/2 A telegraph circuit, when reduced to its simplest elements,..still has no less than four electrical constants, which may be most conveniently reckoned per unit length of circuit—viz., its resistance, inductance, permittance, or electrostatic capacity, and leakage conductance. 1890[see elastance]. 1908Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engin. XL. 58 Dr. Heaviside's permittivity..is measured in terms of the permittance of unit volume. |