wheatstone bridge

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   a bridge used to measure resistances

   Broaderbridge

Questions about wheatstone bridge

What does wheatstone bridge mean?

wheatstone bridge means "a bridge used to measure resistances".

Is wheatstone bridge a common word?

wheatstone bridge 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.