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impedance

/ɪmˈpiːdn̩s/

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noun

Impedimento, obstáculo

The act of impeding; that which impedes; a hindrance.

Examples :

"Heavy traffic was a major impedance to our getting to the airport on time. "

El tráfico intenso fue un gran impedimento para llegar al aeropuerto a tiempo.

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noun

Impedancia

Examples :

"The high impedance of the old speakers meant the music from the phone sounded weak. "

La alta impedancia de los altavoces antiguos significaba que la música del teléfono sonaba débil.

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noun

Impedancia

A quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain

Examples :

"The heavy curtains in the theater presented a high impedance to sound waves, preventing the music from escaping into the hallway. "

Las pesadas cortinas del teatro presentaban una alta impedancia a las ondas sonoras, impidiendo que la música escapara al pasillo.

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noun

Impedancia, desajuste

(by analogy, usually with “mismatch”) a measure of the opposition caused by differences between two paradigms, especially between object-oriented development and relational databases

Examples :

"The company struggled to integrate the new object-oriented software with its old relational database, leading to a high impedance that slowed down data access and created integration problems. "

La empresa tuvo dificultades para integrar el nuevo software orientado a objetos con su antigua base de datos relacional, lo que generó una alta impedancia que ralentizó el acceso a los datos y creó problemas de integración.

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