capacitance
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- noun
- /kəˈpæsɪtəns/
- Specialized
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capacitancia
- Wiring in multilayer structures has orthogonal conductors in adjacent layers, which increase the line capacitance and therefore the signal delay.
- net-capacitance
- load capacitance
- capacitance targets
Examples
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Most power plants use fluid-filled transmitters that operate on capacitance, strain gauge, or force balance principles.
Academic text (1994) -
This create additional surface areas to increase your capacitance and to increase your energy density of super capacitors.
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And if I go to a capacitance test, it's not coming up with anything.
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And I can divide out the capacitance here in this.
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So here is the capacitance of this parallel plate.
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Arrival times and capacitance loads are obtained from the global timing files.
Academic text (1999) -
One advantage of CCDs is that the output node can be designed with very low capacitance.
Academic text (1992) -
If we rearrange these, we see that the current through a capacitor is equal to its capacitance times the rate at which the voltage changes in time.
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Note the similarity between the measured and calculated capacitance values for sites 2A and 2B.
Academic text (1995) -
The engineer calculated the capacitance of the capacitor to ensure it could store enough charge for the circuit.
Synonyms
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The ability of a device to store electric charge
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Amount of electric charge a device can store, like a capacitor
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A unit that measures how much electric charge a part can store, like the farad
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
capacitance = capacity (semi-transparent) = capacit + ance
The word is built on the familiar base 'capacity' with a nominal suffix, but its electronics-specific sense is specialized rather than fully predictable.
Etymology
Capacitance comes from the word capacity, which in turn comes from the Latin capax meaning 'able to hold' and from capere 'to take'. Think of a capacitor as a small container that 'holds' electric charge. So, capacitance is simply the measure of how much charge a device can store.