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Even the smallest components — like resistors and capacitors, which are critical to controlling electrical currents in smartphones — often have winding production journeys that cross multiple borders numerous times before final assembly.
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Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Selling his leftover parts, Stordahl found an untapped market of engineers, students and hobbyists who wanted to buy just a handful of capacitors or circuits from what could be a reel of 1,000 or 5,000.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Besides manpower, fusion projects need a huge amount of materials, such as high power magnets, specific metals, capacitors and power semiconductors.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 16 Mar. 2025
In the 1940s and ’50s, room-sized mainframe computers relied on thousands of vacuum tubes, resisters, capacitors and more.
—Gerui Wang, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Selling his leftover parts, Stordahl found an untapped market of engineers, students and hobbyists who wanted to buy just a handful of capacitors or circuits from what could be a reel of 1,000 or 5,000.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Besides manpower, fusion projects need a huge amount of materials, such as high power magnets, specific metals, capacitors and power semiconductors.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 16 Mar. 2025
In the 1940s and ’50s, room-sized mainframe computers relied on thousands of vacuum tubes, resisters, capacitors and more.
—Gerui Wang, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Capacitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capacitor. Accessed 6 May. 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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