Look up: CAPACITANCE

1. capacitance
   Type: Term Pronunciation: kă-pas′i-tans Definitions: 1. The quantity of electric charge that may be stored upon a body per unit electric potential; expressed in farads, abfarads, or statfarads. 2. In genetics, a state in the evolutionary context referring to an ability to contain or hold....
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2. Capacitance
   the charge-storage ability of a capacitor, defined as the magnitude of charge stored on either plate divided by the applied voltage.
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3. Capacitance
   The ability to store an electrical charge, or, more precisely, the ratio of the total charge on a capacitor to its potential. The unit is the Farad.
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4. capacitance
   [n] - an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
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5. Capacitance
   The ability of a structure - biological or otherwise - to hold an electrical charge.
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6. Capacitance
   That property of a capacitor which determines how much charge can be stored in it for a given potential difference between its terminals, measured in farads, by the ratio of the charge stored to the potential difference.
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7. Capacitance
   The property of being able to oppose a change in voltage or store an electrical charge.
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8. Capacitance
   A measure of the ability of two conductors to store electric charge.
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9. Capacitance
   Property of an electrical component able to store electrostatic charge, like a battery
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10. Capacitance
    The capacitance is defined as the total electric charge on a body divided by its potential.whereC = capacitance [farad]Q = charge [coulomb]V = potential difference across the capacitor [volt]
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11. Capacitance
    the charge-storage ability of a capacitor, defined as the magnitude of charge stored on either plate divided by the applied voltage.
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12. Capacitance
    A unit measurement of a system's ability to store electrical charge.
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13. capacitance
    The ability to store an electric charge
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14. capacitance
    The property of a circuit element that permits it to store an electrical charge.
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15. CAPACITANCE
    the property which permits the storage of electrically separated charges when a potential difference exists between conductors Category: The cosmos • in active or passive AC circuits,a form of frequency-dependent resistance produced by a capacitor Category: Electrical engineering and ...
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16. capacitance
    The quantity of electric charge that may be stored upon a body per unit electric potential; expressed in farads, abfarads, or statfarads. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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17. capacitance
    electrical capacity noun an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
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18. capacitance
    (C) (kә-pas´ĭ-tәns) the property of being able to store an electric charge. the ratio of the charge stored by a capacitor to the voltage across the capacitor.
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19. capacitance
    property of an electric conductor, or set of conductors, that is measured by the amount of separated electric charge that can be stored on it per ... [6 related articles]
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20. Capacitance
    1) The ratio of an impressed charge on a conductor to the corresponding change in potential. 2)The ratio of the charge on either conductor of a capacitor to the potential difference between the conductors. 3) The property of being able to collect a char
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21. Capacitance
    The SI unit of capacitance is the farad; 1 farad is 1 coulomb per volt. where W is the work measured in joules, q is the charge measured in coulombs and C is the capacitance, measured in farads. ==Capacitors== where W is the energy, in joules; C is the capacitance, in farads; and V is the voltage, ...
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22. Capacitance
    An electrical component's ability to store electrical charges. (Post Production)
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23. capacitance
    for a capacitive two-terminal element with terminals A and B, quotient of its electric charge q by the voltage u_AB between the terminals: where u_AB is the line integral of the electric field strength from A to B and where the sign of q is determined by taking the electric current in the time integral de...
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24. capacitance
    A measure of the amount of electric charge separated for a given electric potential (V). If equal and opposite charges are put on the conductors of a capacitor (a device consisting of two conductors closely separated by an insulating medium), then the capacitance (C) is given by C = Q/V where Q...
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25. capacitance
    A measure of the electrical charge of a capacitor consisting of two plates separated by an insulating material.
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