capacitor
ca·pac·i·tor [ kə-ˈpa-sə-tər]
[kə-ˈpa-sə-tər]
: a device that is used to store electrical energy
Recent Examples on the Web
//The outer cylinder is earthed while the inner one is not, creating a capacitor.
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The Economist, "How to wring power from the night air," 1 Aug. 2019
//These include integrated circuits, capacitors, computers, robots and telecoms transmission equipment, all important for its neighbor’s high-tech economy.
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Jane Li, Quartz, "A deepening trade quarrel between Japan and South Korea is rattling smartphone makers," 26 Aug. 2019
//Who tightened the bolts on Dr. Emmett Brown’s flux capacitor?
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San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: XFL, Browns, Nebraska football signal everything old is new again in 2019," 23 Aug. 2019
//This charge separation will, in turn, induce a charge on the surface of the cylinder, and thus a potential difference in the capacitor.
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The Economist, "How to wring power from the night air," 1 Aug. 2019
//The outer cylinder is earthed while the inner one is not, creating a capacitor.
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The Economist, "How to wring power from the night air," 1 Aug. 2019
//The outer cylinder is earthed while the inner one is not, creating a capacitor.
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The Economist, "How to wring power from the night air," 3 Aug. 2019
//The 90-tesla magnet at LNCMI in Toulouse works by charging a bank of 600 capacitors, then discharging them all at once into a coil the size of a trash can.
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Quanta Magazine, "The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity," 22 Feb. 2016
//Unless, of course, your car is equipped with a flux capacitor and plutonium is plentiful.
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Rosy Cordero, EW.com, "Listen to the first original song from the Back to the Future musical," 10 June 2019
First Known Use of capacitor
1925, in the meaning defined above
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