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

Translations

electronic component

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: кондензатор (bg) m (kondenzator)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: kondensaator (et)
• Finnish: kondensaattori (fi)
• French: condensateur (fr) m
• Georgian: კონდესატორი (ḳondesaṭori)
• German: Kondensator (de) m
• Greek: πυκνωτής (el) m (pyknotís)
• Hebrew: קבל‎‎ (he) m (kavel)
• Hungarian: kondenzátor (hu)
• Icelandic: þéttir m, rafþéttir m, rafmagnsþéttir m
• Ido: kondensatoro (io)
• Irish: toilleoir m

• Italian: condensatore (it) m
• Japanese: コンデンサ (ja) (kondensa), キャパシタ (kyapashita)
• Korean: 커패시터 (keopaesiteo), 캐패시터 (kaepaesiteo), 축전기 (ko) (chukjeon-gi), 캡 (kaep)
• Lithuanian: kondensatorius m
• Maori: pūnga iahiko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kondensator m

  Nynorsk: kondensator m

• Polish: kondensator (pl) m
• Portuguese: condensador m (Portugal), capacitor (pt) m (Brazil)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kondansatör (tr)
• Vietnamese: tụ điện (vi)

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Portuguese

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

1. capacitor

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Spanish

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

1. capacitor