Crossword clues for capacitance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
capacitance \ca*pac"i*tance\ (k[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*tans), n.
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an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored.
Syn: electrical capacity, capacity.
(Electronics) a measure of the ability of a capacitor to store electrical charge; the ratio of the charge on one plate of a capacitor to the potential difference between the plates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1893, from capacity + -ance.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics uncountable English) The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit ('''Q/V'''); SI unit: farad (F). 2 (context physics countable English) An element of an electrical circuit exhibiting capacitance.
WordNet
n. an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored [syn: electrical capacity, capacity]
an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge [syn: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser]
Wikipedia
Capacitance is the ability of a body to store an electrical charge. A material with a large capacitance holds more electric charge at a given voltage, than one with low capacitance. Any object that can be electrically charged exhibits capacitance, however the concept is particularly important for understanding the operations of the capacitor, one of the three fundamental electronic components (along with resistors and inductors).
The SI unit of capacitance is the farad (symbol: F), named after the English physicist Michael Faraday. A 1 farad capacitor, when charged with 1 coulomb of electrical charge, has a potential difference of 1 volt between its plates.
Usage examples of "capacitance".
If he senses me, and he surely did sense me good, it was through camera lenses and hypersound pulses and capacitance probes and thermal imagers, none of which are located anywhere near the eyes of the image of Albert.
The linemen had fussed with multimeters and muttered about impedances and capacitances.
A small shift in the capacitance of his sensorium brought him a tinny chime of talk.
If he senses me, and he surely did sense me good, it was through camera lenses and hypersound pulses and capacitance probes and thermal imagers, none of which are located anywhere near the eyes of the image of Albert.
I went quickly to the controls and overrode the order about altitude-I was afraid that the simple little robot might have a nervous breakdown and start shedding capacitances in lieu of tears if it tried to hold the ship just eight hundred feet away from that Gargantuan series of ups and downs and pinnacles.
To achieve a high capacitance, you want the dielectric to be as thin a sheet as its dielectric strength permits, and you want to maximize the effective cross section (the surface area of one flat dielectric sheet, times the number of those sheets).
There were pressure sensors in the soil, motion sensors concealed in rocks, capacitance sensors masquerading as bushes and an invisible network of radar, laser and ultrasonic beams lacing back and forth so tightly not even a field mouse could move without being detected.
The linemen had fussed with multimeters and muttered about impedances and capacitances.