"capacitance" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-capacitance.wav [US] Forms: capacitances [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} capacitance (countable and uncountable, plural capacitances)
  1. (physics, uncountable) The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Physics
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  2. (physics, countable) An element of an electrical circuit exhibiting capacitance. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Physics Translations (property of an element of an electrical circuit): капацитет (kapacitet) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 電容 (Chinese Mandarin), 电容 (diànróng) (Chinese Mandarin), kapacitans [common-gender] (Danish), elektrische capaciteit [feminine] (Dutch), kapasitanssi (Finnish), capacité électrique [feminine] (French), Kapazität [feminine] (German), धारिता (dhāritā) (Hindi), kapacitás (Hungarian), rafrýmd [feminine] (Icelandic), capacità [feminine] (Italian), 容量 (yōryō) (Japanese), 電気容量 (denkiyōryō) (Japanese), 静電容量 (seiden'yōryō) (Japanese), 용량 (yongnyang) (alt: 容量) (Korean), 전기용량 (jeon'giyongnyang) (alt: 電氣容量) (Korean), 정전용량 (jeongjeonyongnyang) (alt: 靜電容量) (Korean), āheipuringa (Maori), kahapupuri hiko (Maori), pojemność (elektryczna) [feminine] (Polish), capacitância [feminine] (Portuguese), capacitate electrică [feminine] (Romanian), ёмкость (jómkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), capacitancia [feminine] (Spanish), kapacitans [common-gender] (Swedish), kalulanan (Tagalog), kapasitans (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-capacitance-en-noun-PSm25gXK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Physical quantities Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Physical quantities: 50 50 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'property of an element of an electrical circuit': 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: capacitation, magnetocapacitance, memcapacitance, pseudocapacitance, transcapacitance Translations (element): kapasitanssi (Finnish), kondensaattori (Finnish), конденса́тор (kondensátor) [masculine] (Russian)
Disambiguation of 'element': 52 48

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      "sense": "property of an element of an electrical circuit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitância"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "property of an element of an electrical circuit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitate electrică"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jómkostʹ",
      "sense": "property of an element of an electrical circuit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ёмкость"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "property of an element of an electrical circuit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "property of an element of an electrical circuit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kapacitans"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "property of an element of an electrical circuit",
      "word": "kalulanan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "property of an element of an electrical circuit",
      "word": "kapasitans"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "element",
      "word": "kapasitanssi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "element",
      "word": "kondensaattori"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kondensátor",
      "sense": "element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "конденса́тор"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "capacitance"
  ],
  "word": "capacitance"
}

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