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capacitor: Meaning and Definition of

ca•pac•i•tor

Pronunciation: (ku-pas'i-tur), [key]
— n. Elect.
  1. 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. Also called
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
capacitive reactance capacity
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