/ad mit"ns/ , n.
1. permission or right to enter: admittance into the exhibit room.
2. an act of admitting.
3. actual entrance.
4. Elect. the measure of the ability of a circuit to conduct an alternating current, consisting of two components, conductance and susceptance; the reciprocal of impedance, expressed in mhos. Symbol: Y
[ 1585-95; ADMIT + -ANCE ]
Syn. 1. access. See entrance 1 .