potentiometer

See also: Potentiometer

English

Alternative forms

• potentiometre (nonstandard, rare)

Noun

potentiometer (plural potentiometers)

1. (electronics) A user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.
2. (physics) An instrument that measures a voltage by opposing it with a precise fraction of a known voltage, and without drawing current from the unknown source. [from late 19th c.]

Related terms

• pot
• potentiometry

Translations

user-adjustable variable resistor

• Arabic: مقياس الجهد الانزلاقي
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 电位器 (zh) (diàn wèi qì)

• Czech: potenciometr m
• Dutch: potentiometer (nl) m, potmeter (nl) m
• Finnish: potentiometri (fi)
• French: potentiomètre (fr) m
• German: Potentiometer (de) n
• Greek: ποτενσιόμετρο (el) n (potensiómetro), ρυθμιστής τάσης m (rythmistís tásis)
• Hebrew: מד מתח (he) m (mad métakh), פוטנציומטר m (potentsiyométer)
• Hungarian: potenciométer (hu)
• Italian: reostato (it) m
• Japanese: ポテンショメータ (potenshomēta)
• Korean: 가변저항 (gabyeonjeohang)
• Polish: potencjometr (pl)
• Portuguese: potenciômetro (pt) m
• Russian: потенциометр (ru) m (potenciometr)
• Serbo-Croatian: потенциометар (potenciometar)
• Spanish: potenciómetro m
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: biến trở (vi), chiết áp (vi)

instrument that measures a voltage

• Italian: potenziometro (it) m
• Japanese: 電位差計 (den'isakei)
• Malay: potensiometer

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• Irish: ^{(please verify)} poitéinsiméadar m

Anagrams

• potentiometre