capacitor

English

Etymology

capacity +‎ -or

Capacitor replaced the term condenser (coined by Alessandro Volta in 1782) to disambiguate it from steam condenser. The coiner is unknown[1] but the change was recommended in 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering.

Pronunciation

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Noun

capacitor (plural capacitors)

(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.

Synonyms

condenser

Coordinate terms

varactor

Derived terms

capacitorless
capacitor plague
electrolytic capacitor
ferroelectric capacitor
gimmick capacitor
memcapacitor
nanocapacitor
pseudocapacitor
supercapacitor
ultracapacitor

Related terms

capacitance
capacity

Translations

electronic component

Arabic: مُكَثِّف‎ m (mukaṯṯif)
Armenian: կոնդենսատոր (hy) (kondensator), էլեկտրակուտակիչ (hy) (ēlektrakutakičʿ)
Azerbaijani: kondensator
Bulgarian: кондензатор (bg) m (kondenzator)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: condensador m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電容器／电容器 (zh) (diànróngqì)
Crimean Tatar: kondensator
Czech: kondenzátor m
Danish: kapacitor c
Dutch: condensator (nl)
Esperanto: kondensilo
Estonian: kondensaator (et)
Finnish: kondensaattori (fi)
French: condensateur (fr) m
Georgian: კონდესატორი (ḳondesaṭori)
German: Kondensator (de) m
Greek: πυκνωτής (el) m (pyknotís)
Hebrew: קַבָּל‎ (he) m (kabal)
Hungarian: kondenzátor (hu)
Icelandic: þéttir m, rafþéttir m, rafmagnsþéttir m
Ido: kondensatoro (io)
Indonesian: kapasitor (id), kondensator (id)
Irish: toilleoir m
Italian: condensatore (it) m
Japanese: コンデンサ (ja) (kondensa), キャパシタ (kyapashita)
Khmer: កុងដង់សាទ័រ (kŏngdângsatôr)
Korean: 커패시터 (keopaesiteo), 캐패시터 (kaepaesiteo), 축전기 (ko) (chukjeon'gi), 캡 (kaep)
Latvian: kondensators m
Lithuanian: kondensatorius m
Macedonian: кондензатор m (kondenzator)
Maori: pūnga iahiko
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kondensator m
Nynorsk: kondensator m
Persian: خازن‎ (fa) (khāzen)
Polish: kondensator (pl) m
Portuguese: condensador m (Portugal), capacitor (pt) m (Brazil)
Romanian: condensator (ro) m
Russian: конденса́тор (ru) m (kondensátor)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кондензатор m, капацитор m
Roman: kondenzator (sh) m, kapacitor m
Slovak: kondenzátor m
Slovene: kondenzator m
Spanish: condensador m
Swedish: kondensator (sv) c
Tagalog: panlulan
Thai: คาปาซิเตอร์ (kahpahsituh)
Turkish: kondansatör (tr)
Vietnamese: tụ điện (vi)

References

Giovanni Saggio, Principles of Analog Electronics, p. 123, CRC Press, 2014 →ISBN.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.pa.siˈtoʁ/ [ka.pa.siˈtoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ka.pa.siˈtoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ka.pa.siˈtoʁ/ [ka.pa.siˈtoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.pa.siˈtoɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.pɐ.siˈtoɾ/

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

(Brazil) capacitor
Synonym: (Portugal) condensator

Romanian

Etymology

From English capacitor.

Noun

capacitor n (plural capacitoare)

capacitor
Synonym: condensator

Declension

Declension of capacitor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) capacitor	capacitorul	(niște) capacitoare	capacitoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) capacitor	capacitorului	(unor) capacitoare	capacitoarelor
vocative	capacitorule		capacitoarelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /kapaθiˈtoɾ/ [ka.pa.θiˈt̪oɾ]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kapasiˈtoɾ/ [ka.pa.siˈt̪oɾ]
Rhymes: -oɾ
Syllabification: ca‧pa‧ci‧tor

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

capacitor

[1] Giovanni Saggio, Principles of Analog Electronics, p. 123, CRC Press, 2014 →ISBN.