Wheatstone bridge

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Wheatstone bridge

noun

Etymology Named after English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), who improved and popularized the original (1833) invention of Samuel Hunter Christie.

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An instrument used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.

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