- capacitance unit
- nouna measure of the capacity of a circuit component to store charge• Hypernyms: ↑electromagnetic unit, ↑emu• Hyponyms: ↑picofarad, ↑microfarad, ↑millifarad, ↑farad, ↑F, ↑abfarad
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capacitance unit
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