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electrical capacity

n. an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored [syn: capacitance, capacity]

Usage examples of "electrical capacity".

The box was a delicate electrical capacity balance, an instrument constructed to register, by having its capacity balance upset, when any new object came near it, It was merely a development of the old regenerative radio receivers which howled when a hand was brought near them - only this, instead of howling, actuated a sensitive relay which in turn set the radio transmitter to sending a steady oscillating signal.

If Doc or his aids switched it on before they left the laboratory office, the electrical capacity of their own bodies set up a field that automatically opened the door when they approached it.

This nuclear generator supplies nearly a third of the electrical capacity of Fetorr.

It knows, thereby, his nervous reaction time and volume, the range and nature of his reflexes, the electrical capacity of each cell in his brain.

More generators were flown in and as the coal stocks grew the electrical capacity was raised.