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noun
An instrument used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a bridge used to measure resistances
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bridge, bridge circuit
History
Named after English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), who improved and popularized the original (1833) invention of Samuel Hunter Christie.
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