capacitance

Other forms of capacitance

plural

capacitances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about capacitance

What does capacitance mean?

capacitance means "an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in capacitance?

capacitance has 4 syllables: ca-pac-i-tance. The stress falls on "pac". In IPA it is /kəˈpæsətəns/.

What is another word for capacitance?

Close synonyms include electrical capacity, capacity, capacitor, condenser, electrical 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 capacitance a common word?

capacitance 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.