How to Use capacitor in a Sentence

capacitor

noun

• Kanter says a flux capacitor helped officials reach their conclusion.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
• But if the plates of a capacitor touch, the magic is gone.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 15 June 2020
• The second is that the OLED structure is like a capacitor that has to charge and discharge.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• So, the team designed the electronics to have a capacitor to store some charge at nighttime.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
• The 85 mph in a shopping mall parking lot was about as real as a flux capacitor, though.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 14 Feb. 2022
• Because of the high demand, Standard sold out of capacitors for a day.
  — Molly Sullivan, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
• Instead, the capacitor itself moves between the heat source and heat sink.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
• Once the beast slaps off Hunter’s mask, however, Omega has to go it alone—her own brief True Grit moment—to retrieve the capacitor.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021
• 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
• Once the engine is warm, the capacitor is fully charged in just 20 seconds and can maintain a charge with the engine off for about 30 minutes.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2020
• In this case, the capacitor is made of a material called a phosphor.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2021
• New water would then be pumped in, which the capacitor would cool during discharge.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
• Oh, and there’s a (non-functional) flux capacitor between the two seats.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024
• The destroyers need a capacitor system to store and then quickly surge power to a laser.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2019
• Welcome then to the Final Four that no one without a flux capacitor saw coming.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• Rev up your DeLorean and check that old flux capacitor because Cannes 2023 is looking like a trip back to the future.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• 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
• The researchers showed that this can be prevented by placing the atoms inside a capacitor.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
• When Wentz starts his experiments, the capacitor discharges its stored power and lights up the LEDs.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
• Who tightened the bolts on Dr. Emmett Brown’s flux capacitor?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
• The capacitors are then charged and discharged in sequence to exchange energy with the AC network.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2023
• His taser Nerf-gun works by taking the capacitor from the flash of a disposable camera and packing it into the body of one of Nerf's giant-sized missile-like darts.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2015
• To handle this, the DRAM is refreshed multiple times per second to top up the capacitors and rewrite the values being stored.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2018
• The capacitor triggers the muscle contractions that make the organ pump blood.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
• 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
• At the core of this capacitor is a porous pellet of tantalum metal.
  — Eric Schlaepfer, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• The motor and capacitor add just 75 pounds to the powertrain's mass, but the system doesn't have enough juice for pure electric operation.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024