capacitor

Summary

capacitor ranks in the top 0.81% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,129 views/month, #630 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• capacitor is a type of electronic component^[2].
• capacitor is a type of passive electronic component^[3].
• capacitor is a type of one-port circuit^[4].
• capacitor's Commons category is recorded as Capacitors^[5].
• capacitor's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Capacitors^[6].
• capacitor's described at URL is recorded as https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zs7mg2p#zhj73qt^[7].
• capacitor's described at URL is recorded as https://electronicsclub.info/capacitors.htm^[8].
• capacitor's described at URL is recorded as https://www.modellingelectronics.co.uk/faq/all-about-capacitors/^[9].
• capacitor's described at URL is recorded as https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/capacitor/cap_2.html^[10].
• capacitor's described at URL is recorded as https://ccea.org.uk/downloads/docs/Support/Factfile/2019/Fact%20File%3A%202.2%20Electronic%20Concepts%20and%20Ohm%E2%80%99s%20Law%3A%20Capacitors_0.pdf^[11].
• capacitor's described at URL is recorded as https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/electronic_components/capacitors/capacitor-types.php^[12].
• capacitor's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[13].
• capacitor's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[14].
• capacitor's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[15].
• capacitor's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags/capacitor^[16].
• capacitor's has characteristic is recorded as capacitance^[17].
• capacitor's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'C'}^[18].
• capacitor's different from is recorded as battery^[19].
• capacitor's different from is recorded as condenser^[20].
• capacitor's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have^[21].
• capacitor's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[22].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include electronic component^[2], passive electronic component^[3], and one-port circuit^[4].

Why It Matters

capacitor ranks in the top 0.81% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,129 views/month, #630 of 77,819).^[1] capacitor has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[23] capacitor is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[24]