present participle of reluct

(now rare) Opposing; offering resistance (to). / Not wanting to take some action; unwilling. / (regular expressions) Tending to match as little text as possible.

Unwillingness to do something. / Hesitancy in taking some action. / (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reluctate

simple past tense and past participle of reluctate

The quantity equal to the reciprocal of magnetic permeability.

(obsolete) Resistance, opposition. / (now rare) Reluctance, disinclination.

plural of reluctivity

plural of reluctance

magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux