How to Use capacitor in a Sentence

capacitor

noun
  • Shaking the flashlight runs a magnet back and forth through a coil to store charge in a capacitor, and voilà!
    — Tushar Nene, Wired, 6 Nov. 2021
  • In tests, the device stored more than seven times the charge of other capacitors.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • New water would then be pumped in, which the capacitor would cool during discharge.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
  • Instead, the capacitor itself moves between the heat source and heat sink.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
  • The key upgrade on these speakers is the new capacitors used in the crossover for the drivers.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • So, the team designed the electronics to have a capacitor to store some charge at nighttime.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The charge storage in the capacitor is volatile, though, and will be lost in a matter of microseconds.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
  • On the way there Cassie blew a capacitor in its left leg and needed a little help from its human friends.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Oh, and there’s a (non-functional) flux capacitor between the two seats.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The 85 mph in a shopping mall parking lot was about as real as a flux capacitor, though.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 14 Feb. 2022
  • In this case, the capacitor is made of a material called a phosphor.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Because of the high demand, Standard sold out of capacitors for a day.
    — Molly Sullivan, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
  • Imagine a long, muscular capacitor that can ping, probe, and punch.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The destroyers need a capacitor system to store and then quickly surge power to a laser.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2019
  • In its skull is a squarish motherboard, roughly the size of a slice of bread and studded with white capacitors that look like teeth.
    — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The researchers showed that this can be prevented by placing the atoms inside a capacitor.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
  • One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting a reaction.
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • When a bit is put into a memory cell, the transistor is used to charge or discharge the capacitor.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
  • At the core of this capacitor is a porous pellet of tantalum metal.
    — Eric Schlaepfer, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The battery stores power, and ComEd uses it as a capacitor for the grid.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Fortunately for my nerves, the clock kit's smaller capacitors pose much less of a hazard.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The process starts with solar panels that collect and store energy in capacitors.
    — New Atlas, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Each cell comprises a capacitor and a transistor and stores a single bit of data.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers mimic the behavior of a phase-change bit by hooking up the gate of a transistor to a capacitor.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
  • Welcome then to the Final Four that no one without a flux capacitor saw coming.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The capacitor triggers the muscle contractions that make the organ pump blood.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
  • To improve measurement, the cells were connected in series and paired with a small capacitor.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The outer cylinder is earthed while the inner one is not, creating a capacitor.
    — The Economist, 3 Aug. 2019
  • This necessitates that the assembly of the capacitor occur in a glove box filled with argon gas.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The hardware worked by adding charge to the capacitor, which would heat the fluid in its immediate vicinity.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023

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