How to Use capacitance in a Sentence

capacitance

noun

• As a result, the state of the electrons in the wire influenced the capacitance of the quantum dot.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2025
• Today’s standard cells can have no more than four inputs, because a greater number would add too much capacitance, which saps speed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2023
• The thing that’s key about them for the purpose of machine learning is that their value, the capacitance, is determined by their size.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
• The invention of the scanning capacitance microscope has all of that.
  — Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
• Meanwhile, a capacitance sensor measures the electrical charge in the leaf.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2017
• Touchscreens like those in smartphones and tablets work by detecting changes in capacitance, or how much electric charge a material can store.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2011
• The capacitance varies with the change in the facing area, which changes substantially in proportion to the depth of depression of the button.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2024
• For starters, over the course of 24 hours there are large swings in the baseline capacitance of the nests due to temperature and humidity shifts.
  — Paul Perrault, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2016
• That capacitance is relatively easy to measure, allowing the team to track the behavior of the nearby wire.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2025
• But for its true micron size, the new device shows an exceptionally high capacitance, says Misra.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• All else being equal, the capacitance between two electrodes depends on the dielectric constant of the substance between them.
  — Paul Perrault, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2016
• So, the electric polarization is small, resulting in a small capacitance.
  — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2017
• These exchanges alter the quantum dot's ability to store charge (its capacitance, in other words), a property that can be measured.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
• The team had to figure out how to make these films thicker, while maintaining the unique crystal structure that underlies their negative capacitance.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2024
• But more complex ones with capacitance or inductance, such as an air conditioner’s compressor, can cause current to lead or lag voltage.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2019
• But at high frequencies, the capacitance between the coil and washer saps a signal’s power instead of amplifying it.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
• The structure leads to parasitic capacitance that would hamper performance.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2017
• By driving the electrons into the Rydberg state, the system’s quantum capacitance shifted in a measurable way.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
• But that process is difficult to scale and can introduce unwanted capacitances that slow circuit operations.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026
• But for its true micrometer size, the new device shows an exceptionally high capacitance, says Misra.
  — Prachi Patel, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• The rotational twist of the cable helps to optimize inductance and capacitance of the connection.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The current set-up can be recharged 10,000 times and still retain about 90 percent of its original capacitance.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2020
• The system’s performance improved even at light loads, thanks to accurate modeling of diode parasitic capacitance.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
• For polymer capacitors, the capacitance is growing in parallel to the temperature rise.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
• These new interconnects will also need better insulation, lest signal-sapping capacitance take away all their advantage.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• But no story about the scanning capacitance microscope’s triumph would be complete without some discussion of the VideoDisc’s failure.
  — Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
• When the tunneling probability of electrons decreases, so too does the junction’s capacitance.
  — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2017
• And this is particularly a problem at high frequencies, which are more susceptible, particularly to the capacitance side of things.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
• To get a clear picture, the VideoDisc system required very sensitive capacitance sensors to detect these tiny differences at high frequency.
  — Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
• But according to one modern source, a typical pint-size Leyden jar (roughly half a liter) would likely have had a capacitance of about 1 nanofarad and the energy of about 1 joule.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2018