Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An electric circuit element used to store charge temporarily, consisting in general of two metallic plates separated and insulated from each other by a dielectric. Also called condenser.
Wiktionary
- n. electronics An electronic component capable of storing an electric charge; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a device used in electronic circuits to hold electrical charge, consisting of two conducting plates separated by a nonconducting (dielectric) medium; it is characterized by its capacitance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge
Examples
“Video explains what a capacitor is and how to make one - Boing Boing make video about visible sound and vibration”
“The flux capacitor is what makes time travel possible.”
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“A bubble-maker that looks like the flux capacitor from the Back to the Future films last night won a £250,000 prize from the Royal Society for its ability to transform the cost and effectiveness of growing algae for biofuel, treating sewage and cooling computers.”
“A bubble-maker that looks like the flux capacitor from the Back to the Future films last night won a £250,000 prize from the Royal Society ...”
“Mr. Fusion was just the thing that powered the flux capacitor from the end of the first movie on.”
“Charging a capacitor is like falling out of an airplane.”
“A circuit with an inductor and a capacitor is like a pendulum.”
“Then there's that other really important thing that happened on Nov. 5 -- specifically, Nov. 5, 1955, the day that Doc Emmett Brown slipped, hit his head and invented the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.”
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“Next, access the safety interlock circuit of the prefire capacitor, which is located immediately behind the housing of the prefire chamber.”
“Sometimes a single capacitor, which is exchanged from time to time to adjust the pf, is sufficient.”
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
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includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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Industrial
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words I find interesting but don't neccessarily like
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quark, quark, quark!
science words that are fun to say
math, too
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