Meaning and example
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
The passage used "capacitance" to mean an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.011 places capacitance in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 50.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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