re|luc|tance

re|luc|tance
re|luc|tance «rih LUHK tuhns», noun.
1. a reluctant feeling or action; unwillingness: »

She took part in the game with reluctance. There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as Advice (Joseph Addison).

SYNONYM(S): disinclination.
2. slowness in action because of unwillingness: »

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief (James M. Barrie).

3. Physics. the resistance offered to the passage of magnetic lines of force. It is equivalent to the ratio of the magnetomotive force to the magnetic flux.

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