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Definition of Electrical capacity
1. Noun. An electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrical Capacity
Literary usage of Electrical capacity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"electrical capacity of the cone condenser as then arranged. A standard condenser
belonging to the Davy-Faraday laboratory, and having a capacity of ..."
2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart, Jules François Joubert (1883)
"electrical capacity.—We have designated as the capacity of a conductor the charge
which must be given to it to raise it to unit potential, ..."
3. An Introduction to Physical Measurements: With Appendices on Absolute by Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (1899)
"electrical capacity. The capacity c of a conductor is that quantity of electricity
which it holds when it is charged to the unit potential while the ..."
4. An Elementary Book on Electricity and Magnetism and Their Applications: A by Dugald Caleb Jackson (1902)
"... ELECTRICAL MACHINES, AND electrical capacity. Difference of Level or Potential.
— Many of the simpler phenomena of electricity may be illustrated by the ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by George Carey Foster, Edmund Atkinson, Jules François Joubert (1896)
"electrical capacity— CONDENSERS. 49. Capacity of an Electric Field.— In nearly
all cases in which we require to deal practically with electric fields, ..."