bypass capacitor

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   a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies

   Synonymsbypass condenser

   Broadercapacitor

Questions about bypass capacitor

What does bypass capacitor mean?

bypass capacitor means "a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies".

What is another word for bypass capacitor?

Close synonyms include bypass condenser. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bypass capacitor a common word?

bypass capacitor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.