Sentence examples for capacitor from inspiring English sources

The fear is that players of his generation can become infantilised, as mechanically dependant as infuriatingly over-dressed modern cars, with their electronically variable valve-timing, their six months in the workshop to recalibrate the flux capacitor that powers the wing mirror hinge.

But capacitor banks tend to be very large and hard to site near customers (who love to guzzle power but complain about new power lines or hardware in their neighbourhood).

This makes it not only a means of transporting electricity, but also a huge coaxial capacitor.

When an alternating current is applied to this capacitor, an additional current must flow continuously through the cable to keep the capacitor fully charged.

Some of the extra energy produced is stored in a capacitor embedded inside the device.

If the patient suffers a cardiac arrest and the heart stops beating entirely, the capacitor kicks in.

By contrast, a DRAM's volatile capacitors have to be kept charged up continuously or they will lose their data.In theory, the basic FeRAM design of one transistor and one ferroelectric capacitor is as reliable as a DRAM.

Some of the extra energy is temporarily stored in a capacitor embedded inside the device.

In a supercapacitor, as in a normal capacitor, energy is stored on the surfaces of materials in the form of static electricity.

Each cell consists of a single transistor to switch it on and off plus a capacitor to hold a charge the absence or presence of which represents the binary digits 0 or 1.

This permits them to have an energy-density up to 10,000 times that of a regular capacitor.