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During this process, the team added things like transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
Independent digital and analog power supplies, along with ELNA capacitors, deliver clarity, dynamics and tonal accuracy.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Sometimes motors are failing, capacitors are going weak.
—Sergio Candido, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
The soundtrack was playing, some friends dressed in 50s attire and one person came as the flux capacitor.
—Kansas City Star, 1 Nov. 2025
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
Independent digital and analog power supplies, along with ELNA capacitors, deliver clarity, dynamics and tonal accuracy.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Sometimes motors are failing, capacitors are going weak.
—Sergio Candido, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
The soundtrack was playing, some friends dressed in 50s attire and one person came as the flux capacitor.
—Kansas City Star, 1 Nov. 2025
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“Capacitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capacitor. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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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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