reactance
/riˈæktəns/
noun
- A psychological resistance to being told what to do, often leading a person to do the opposite.
- Reactance can explain why people sometimes reject helpful advice.
- The advertising campaign backfired by triggering reactance in consumers.
- Teenagers often show reactance when parents set strict rules.
- In electronics, the opposition to the flow of alternating current caused by inductance or capacitance.
- Inductive reactance is measured in ohms, just like resistance.
- The engineer calculated the reactance of the circuit to tune the radio.
- Capacitive reactance decreases as the frequency increases.
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