capacitor

English

Etymology

From 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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈpæ.sɪ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈpæ.sə.tɚ/

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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.
   • 2021 December, “Snap Circuits Classic”, in Snap Circuits‎^[1], Elenco, page 27:

     By placing the 0.02μF capacitor on top of the whistle chip, the circuit oscillates at a lower frequency. […] It is possible to pick resistors and capacitors that will make the pitch higher than humans can hear.

Synonyms

• condenser

Coordinate terms

• varactor

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• capacitance
• capacity

Translations

electronic component

• Arabic: مُكَثِّف m (mukaṯṯif), مُكَثِّفَة f (mukaṯṯifa)
• Armenian: կոնդենսատոր (hy) (kondensator), էլեկտրակուտակիչ (hy) (ēlektrakutakičʻ)
• Asturian: condensador m, capacitor m
• Azerbaijani: kondensator
• Basque: kondentsadore
• 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: kondensator c, kapacitor c
• Dutch: condensator (nl)
• Esperanto: kondensilo
• Estonian: kondensaator (et)
• Finnish: kondensaattori (fi)
• French: condensateur (fr) m
• Galician: condensador m
• Georgian: კონდესატორი (ḳondesaṭori)
• German: Kondensator (de) m
• Greek: πυκνωτής (el) m (pyknotís)
• Hebrew: קַבָּל (he) m (kabal)
• Hindi: संधारित्र (sandhāritra), कंडेनसर (kaṇḍensar) (colloquial), कैपेसिटर (kaipesiṭar)
• 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) (xâzen)
• Polish: kondensator (pl) m
• Portuguese: condensador m (Portugal), capacitor (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: condensator (ro) m or n
• 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, capacitor (es) m
• Swedish: kondensator (sv) c
• Tagalog: panlulan
• Thai: คาปาซิเตอร์ (kahpahsituh)
• Turkish: kondansatör (tr)
• Vietnamese: tụ điện (vi)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.pa.siˈtoʁ/ [ka.pa.siˈtoh]

• (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/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.pɐ.siˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.pɐ.siˈto.ɾi/

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

1. (Brazil) capacitor

   Synonym: (Portugal) condensator

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English capacitor.

Noun

capacitor n (plural capacitoare)

1. capacitor

   Synonym: condensator

Declension

Declension of capacitor

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	capacitor	capacitorul		capacitoare	capacitoarele
genitive-dative	capacitor	capacitorului		capacitoare	capacitoarelor
vocative	capacitorule			capacitoarelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

1. capacitor