capacitance

English

Etymology

From capacity +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

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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).

   Antonym: elastance

2. (physics, countable) An element of an electrical circuit exhibiting capacitance.

Derived terms

• capacitation
• magnetocapacitance
• memcapacitance
• pseudocapacitance
• transcapacitance
• varicap

 

Translations

property of an element of an electrical circuit

• Bulgarian: капацитет (bg) m (kapacitet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電容 / 电容 (zh) (diànróng)

• Danish: kapacitans c
• Dutch: elektrische capaciteit (nl) f
• Finnish: kapasitanssi (fi)
• French: capacité électrique (fr) f
• German: Kapazität (de) f
• Hindi: धारिता (dhāritā)
• Hungarian: kapacitás (hu)
• Icelandic: rafrýmd f
• Italian: capacità (it) f
• Japanese: 容量 (ja) (yōryō), 電気容量 (denkiyōryō), 静電容量 (seiden'yōryō)
• Korean: 용량(容量) (ko) (yongnyang), 전기용량(電氣容量) (jeon'giyongnyang), 정전용량(靜電容量) (jeongjeonyongnyang)
• Maori: āheipuringa, kahapupuri hiko
• Polish: pojemność (elektryczna) f
• Portuguese: capacitância (pt) f
• Romanian: capacitate electrică f
• Russian: ёмкость (ru) f (jómkostʹ)
• Spanish: capacitancia (es) f
• Swedish: kapacitans (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalulanan
• Turkish: kapasitans

element

• Finnish: kapasitanssi (fi), kondensaattori (fi)
• Russian: конденса́тор (ru) m (kondensátor)