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.

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)
• 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
• 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
• 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 articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) capacitor	capacitorul	(niște) capacitoare	capacitoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) capacitor	capacitorului	(unor) capacitoare	capacitoarelor
vocative	capacitorule		capacitoarelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

capacitor m (plural capacitores)

1. capacitor