CAPACITANCE UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capacitance unit mean? 

• CAPACITANCE UNIT (noun)
  The noun CAPACITANCE UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a measure of the capacity of a circuit component to store charge

  Familiarity information: CAPACITANCE UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPACITANCE UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A measure of the capacity of a circuit component to store charge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("capacitance unit" is a kind of...):

electromagnetic unit; emu (any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capacitance unit"):

picofarad (a unit of capacitance equal to one trillionth of a farad)

microfarad (a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a farad)

millifarad (a unit of capacitance equal to one thousandth of a farad)

F; farad (the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates)

abfarad (a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads)