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capacitive reactance

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noun

Electricity.

  1. the opposition of capacitance to alternating current, equal to the reciprocal of the product of the angular frequency of the current times the capacitance. X C

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The combined effect of resistance R , inductive reactance XL , and capacitive reactance XC is defined to be impedance, an AC analogue to resistance in a DC circuit.

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