capacitance
nounEtymology From capacity + -ance.
1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F).
2
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics An element of an electrical circuit exhibiting capacitance.
- Derived terms
- capacitation, magnetocapacitance, memcapacitance, pseudocapacitance, transcapacitance, varicap