How to Use capacitor in a Sentence
capacitor
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But if the plates of a capacitor touch, the magic is gone.
—Sara Harrison, Wired, 15 June 2020
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The second is that the OLED structure is like a capacitor that has to charge and discharge.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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So, the team designed the electronics to have a capacitor to store some charge at nighttime.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
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The 85 mph in a shopping mall parking lot was about as real as a flux capacitor, though.
—Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 14 Feb. 2022
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Because of the high demand, Standard sold out of capacitors for a day.
—Molly Sullivan, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
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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
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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
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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
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In this case, the capacitor is made of a material called a phosphor.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2021
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The destroyers need a capacitor system to store and then quickly surge power to a laser.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2019
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Welcome then to the Final Four that no one without a flux capacitor saw coming.
—Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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The researchers showed that this can be prevented by placing the atoms inside a capacitor.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
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When Wentz starts his experiments, the capacitor discharges its stored power and lights up the LEDs.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
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Who tightened the bolts on Dr. Emmett Brown’s flux capacitor?
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
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The capacitors are then charged and discharged in sequence to exchange energy with the AC network.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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The capacitor triggers the muscle contractions that make the organ pump blood.
—Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
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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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At the core of this capacitor is a porous pellet of tantalum metal.
—Eric Schlaepfer, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
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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
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Looking at the basic specs of the Magneto, there's an axial flux electric motor (hold the capacitor) that spins up to 5,250 rpm.
—Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2022
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As the wearer sweats on the strip, electrical energy gets stored in a small capacitor and can be discharged to devices when needed.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
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But as detailed in the YouTube video, the one bought off eBay only has two inductors, as well as a large electrolytic capacitor, but a lot less circuitry overall.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
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During the production process, a sensor in the car’s occupant detection system may have become deformed, Subaru said, which can cause a crack to form in a capacitor and let moisture in.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
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