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Imagine a long, muscular capacitor that can ping, probe, and punch.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Except, of course, for that old dinosaur that somehow stumbled into a misplaced DeLorean, fired up the flux capacitor, and time travelled from the stone ages straight to the Uli beach.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
The researchers integrated the memristor into a simple resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit to replicate the different phases of a neuron’s electrical activity.
—New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
That is Eaton, which makes electrical equipment used in data centers and other products across the grid, such as power capacitors mounted on electricity poles.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Except, of course, for that old dinosaur that somehow stumbled into a misplaced DeLorean, fired up the flux capacitor, and time travelled from the stone ages straight to the Uli beach.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
The researchers integrated the memristor into a simple resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit to replicate the different phases of a neuron’s electrical activity.
—New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
That is Eaton, which makes electrical equipment used in data centers and other products across the grid, such as power capacitors mounted on electricity poles.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Capacitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capacitor. Accessed 22 Oct. 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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