capacitor

[ kuh-pas-i-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Electricity.

a device for accumulating and holding a charge of electricity, consisting of two equally charged conducting surfaces having opposite signs and separated by a dielectric.

capacitor

/ kəˈpæsɪtə /

a device for accumulating electric charge, usually consisting of two conducting surfaces separated by a dielectric Former namecondenser

capacitor

/ kə-păs′ĭ-tər /

An electrical device consisting of two conducting plates separated by an electrical insulator (the dielectric ), designed to hold an electric charge. Charge builds up when a voltage is applied across the plates, creating an electric field between them. Current can flow through a capacitor only as the voltage across it is changing, not when it is constant. Capacitors are used in power supplies, amplifiers, signal processors, oscillators, and logic gates.
Compare induction coil

capacitor

A device used in electrical circuits . The capacitor stores an electrical charge for short periods of time, and then returns it to the circuit.

First recorded in 1925–30; capacit(y) + -or ²

His explications always track, even when expounding on “the flux capacitor” and other time-travel hooey.

Though the capabilities of the flux capacitor are completely fictional and purely fun, there’s no shame in indulging in some sci-fi.

The post Prepare for time travel with this flux capacitor appeared first on Popular Science.

Aluminum surfaces on the walls and ceiling would conduct electricity from capacitors as it travels back to a copper pole in the center of the room.

The capacitor also powered a sensor that measured the saltiness of that person’s sweat.

To return to his present day, his flux capacitor needed a providential shaft of lightning.

"Nice job these babies got," commented Gaines as he checked the capacitor circuits.

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