capacitor meaning
- An electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge
- capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser
Derived forms: capacitors
Type of: electrical device
Part of: circuit, distributer, distributor, electric circuit, electrical circuit, electrical distributor
Encyclopedia: Capacitor
[Architecture]
An electric component which consists of conducting plates insulated from each other by a layer of dielectric material; introduces capacitance into a circuit.
[Electricity]
"A device which consists essentially of two conductors (such as parallel metal plates) insulated from each other by a dielectric and which introduces capacitance into a circuit, stores electrical energy, blocks the flow of direct current, and permits the f"
[Electronics]
A passive electronic-circuit component
consisting of, in basic form, two metal electrodes
or plates separated by a dielectric (insulator).
capacitor amplifier See DIELECTRIC AMPLIFIER.
capacitor antenna See CONDENSER ANTENNA.
capacitor bank A network of capacitors connected
in combination, yielding a desired characteristic.
capacitor braking The connection of a capacitor to
the winding of a motor after the removal of power,
to speed up the process of braking.
[Medicine]
n : a device giving capacitance and usu. consisting of conducting plates or foils separated by thin layers of dielectric (as air or mica) with the plates on opposite sides of the dielectric layers oppositely charged by a source of voltage and the electrical energy of the charged system stored in the polarized dielectric
Examples
More: Next- this arrangement is known as a parallel-plate capacitor.
- the second resistor has been replaced by a capacitor.
- a sector of a cylindrical capacitor may thus be utilized as an energy filter.
- any two conductors separated by an insulator are said to form a capacitor.
- it is as if certain beds in the sub-surface contained banks of tiny capacitors.