capacitor

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəˈpæ.sɪ.tə/
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• General-American: /kəˈpæ.sə.tɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 P AE1 S AH0 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From capacity + -or. Capacitor replaced the term condenser (coined by Alessandro Volta in 1782) to disambiguate it from steam condenser. The coiner is unknown but the change was recommended in 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering.

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُكَثِّف (mukaṯṯif) — electronic component
• Arabic: مُكَثِّفَة (mukaṯṯifa) — electronic component
• Armenian: կոնդենսատոր (kondensator) — electronic component
• Armenian: էլեկտրակուտակիչ (ēlektrakutakičʻ) — electronic component
• Asturian: condensador — electronic component
• Asturian: capacitor — electronic component
• Azerbaijani: kondensator — electronic component
• Basque: kondentsadore — electronic component
• Bulgarian: кондензатор (kondenzator) — electronic component
• Catalan: condensador — electronic component
• Chinese Mandarin: 電容器 /电容器 (diànróngqì) — electronic component
• Crimean Tatar: kondensator — electronic component
• Czech: kondenzátor — electronic component
• Danish: kondensator — electronic component
• Danish: kapacitor — electronic component
• Dutch: condensator — electronic component
• Esperanto: kondensilo — electronic component
• Estonian: kondensaator — electronic component
• Finnish: kondensaattori — electronic component
• French: condensateur — electronic component
• Galician: condensador — electronic component
• Georgian: კონდესატორი (ḳondesaṭori) — electronic component
• German: Kondensator — electronic component
• Greek: πυκνωτής (pyknotís) — electronic component
• Hebrew: קַבָּל (kabal) — electronic component
• Hindi: संधारित्र (sandhāritra) — electronic component
• Hindi: कंडेनसर (kaṇḍensar) — electronic component
• Hindi: कैपेसिटर (kaipesiṭar) — electronic component
• Hungarian: kondenzátor — electronic component
• Icelandic: þéttir — electronic component
• Icelandic: rafþéttir — electronic component
• Icelandic: rafmagnsþéttir — electronic component
• Ido: kondensatoro — electronic component
• Indonesian: kapasitor — electronic component
• Indonesian: kondensator — electronic component
• Irish: toilleoir — electronic component
• Italian: condensatore — electronic component
• Japanese: コンデンサ (kondensa) — electronic component
• Japanese: キャパシタ (kyapashita) — electronic component
• Khmer: កុងដង់សាទ័រ (kŏngdângsatôr) — electronic component
• Korean: 커패시터 (keopaesiteo) — electronic component
• Korean: 캐패시터 (kaepaesiteo) — electronic component
• Korean: 축전기 (chukjeon'gi) — electronic component
• Korean: 캡 (kaep) — electronic component
• Latvian: kondensators — electronic component
• Lithuanian: kondensatorius — electronic component
• Macedonian: кондензатор (kondenzator) — electronic component
• Māori: pūnga iahiko — electronic component
• Norwegian Bokmål: kondensator — electronic component
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kondensator — electronic component
• Persian: خازن (xâzen) — electronic component
• Polish: kondensator — electronic component
• Portuguese: condensador — electronic component
• Portuguese: capacitor — electronic component
• Romanian: condensator — electronic component
• Russian: конденса́тор (kondensátor) — electronic component
• Serbo-Croatian: кондензатор — electronic component
• Serbo-Croatian: капацитор — electronic component
• Serbo-Croatian: kondenzator — electronic component
• Serbo-Croatian: kapacitor — electronic component
• Slovak: kondenzátor — electronic component
• Slovene: kondenzator — electronic component
• Spanish: condensador — electronic component
• Spanish: capacitor — electronic component
• Swedish: kondensator — electronic component
• Tagalog: panlulan — electronic component
• Thai: คาปาซิเตอร์ (kahpahsituh) — electronic component
• Turkish: kondansatör — electronic component
• Vietnamese: tụ điện — electronic component