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The easiest one involves a DeLorean, a flux capacitor, and setting the time circuits for January 2036, when Josh Allen’s about to turn 40.
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2025
The simplest resonator to implement, and the one the team is tackling first, is an inductive-capacitive (LC) resonator, where the role of the capacitor is played by the whole circuit and an on-chip inductor serves to keep the voltage oscillating.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Then the boards and various components, such as microchips and aluminum capacitors, are shuffled onto a large, pink sorting machine.
—Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
At present, operators must do that voltage regulation constantly because of the variable nature of the sun’s energy—and that task wears down inverters, capacitors, and other components.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2025
The simplest resonator to implement, and the one the team is tackling first, is an inductive-capacitive (LC) resonator, where the role of the capacitor is played by the whole circuit and an on-chip inductor serves to keep the voltage oscillating.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Then the boards and various components, such as microchips and aluminum capacitors, are shuffled onto a large, pink sorting machine.
—Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
At present, operators must do that voltage regulation constantly because of the variable nature of the sun’s energy—and that task wears down inverters, capacitors, and other components.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Capacitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capacitor. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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capacitor
noun
ca·pac·i·tor
kə-ˈpas-ət-ər 
: a device for storing electric charge
called also condenser
Medical Definition
capacitor
noun
ca·pac·i·tor
kə-ˈpas-ət-ər
: a device giving capacitance and usually consisting of conducting plates or foils separated by thin layers of dielectric (as air or mica) with the plates on opposite sides of the dielectric layers oppositely charged by a source of voltage and the electrical energy of the charged system stored in the polarized dielectric
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