Capacitance Definition

kə-păsĭ-təns
noun
The ratio of charge to potential on an electrically charged, isolated conductor.
American Heritage
That property of a capacitor which determines how much charge can be stored in it for a given potential difference between its terminals, equal to the ratio of the charge stored to the potential difference and measured in farads.
Webster's New World
The property of a circuit element that permits it to store charge.
American Heritage
The part of the circuit exhibiting capacitance.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Capacitance

Noun

Singular:
capacitance
Plural:
capacitances

Origin of Capacitance

  • capacit(y) –ance

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Capacitance Sentence Examples

  • To make it faster, reduce the capacitance to 10% of original value (10 mfd ).

  • Increasing switch size to reduce on resistance adds to the parasitic capacitance, thus slowing the operation.

  • At these frequencies some form of distributed decoupling capacitance is necessary.

  • Very little additional capacitance is added by the additional electrode and the restore function is very fast (about one microsecond ).

  • There is an argument that this is due to the stray capacitance between the closely-spaced ends of the thick rods.

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Words Starting With

CCACAP

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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