Associations to the word «Reluctance»

Wiktionary

RELUCTANCE, noun. Unwillingness to do something.
RELUCTANCE, noun. Hesitancy in taking some action.
RELUCTANCE, noun. (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
RELUCTANCE MOTOR, noun. An alternating current motor with a stator winding like that of an induction motor and a rotor that has projecting poles of ferromagnetic material
RELUCTANCE MOTORS, noun. Plural of reluctance motor

Dictionary definition

RELUCTANCE, noun. (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance).
RELUCTANCE, noun. A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats