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
    An electrical component's ability to store electrical charges. (Post Production)
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22. 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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23. Capacitance
    As the measure of electrical storage potential of a capacitor, the unit of capacitance is the farad, but typical values are expressed in microfarads (MFD).
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24. capacitance
    capacitance, in electricity, capability of a body, system, circuit, or device for storing electric charge. Capacitance is expressed as the ratio of stored charge in coulombs to the impressed potential difference in volts. The resulting unit of capacitance is the farad [for Michael Faraday]. In an el...
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25. Capacitance
    In electromagnetism and electronics, `capacitance` is the ability of a body to hold an electrical charge. Capacitance is also a measure of the amount of electrical energy stored (or separated) for a given electric potential. A common form of energy storage device is a parallel-plate capacitor. In a ...
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