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 but the change was recommended in 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering.

Noun

capacitor (plural capacitors)

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

Related terms

• capacitance
• capacity
• condenser
• varactor

 

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

electronic component

• 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 (zh), 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: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 커패시터 (keopaesiteo), 캐패시터 (kaepaesiteo), 축전기 (ko) (chukjeon-gi), 캡 (kaep)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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)

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Portuguese

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

1. capacitor

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /kapaθiˈtoɾ/, [kapaθiˈt̪oɾ]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /kapasiˈtoɾ/, [kapasiˈt̪oɾ]

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

1. capacitor