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Leyden jar   /lˈaɪdən dʒɑr/   Listen
Leyden jar

noun
1.
An electrostatic capacitor of historical interest.  Synonym: Leiden jar.





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"Leyden jar" Quotes from Famous Books



... so much to the lad, acted upon him like the discharging rod of the electrician upon a Leyden jar; in an instant his energy seemed to have left him, and he lay prone in the narrow way, only half-conscious of being very slowly dragged over rough stone for some time before the dizzy, helpless sensation passed off, and ...
— Sappers and Miners - The Flood beneath the Sea • George Manville Fenn
... his beard scarce silvered, bore A ready credence in his looks, A lettered magnate, lording o'er An ever-widening realm of books. In him brain-currents, near and far, Converged as in a Leyden jar; The old, dead authors thronged him round about, And Elzevir's gray ghosts from leathern ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier


Words linked to "Leyden jar" :   condenser, electrical condenser, capacitor, capacitance


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