capacitance
English
Noun
capacitance (countable and uncountable, plural capacitances)
- (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).
- Antonym: elastance
- (physics, countable) An element of an electrical circuit exhibiting capacitance.
Derived terms
- capacitation
- magnetocapacitance
- memcapacitance
- pseudocapacitance
- transcapacitance
Translations
property of an element of an electrical circuit
|
element
|