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voltage

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

The term most often used in place of electromotive force, potential difference, or voltage drop to designate electric pressure that exists between two points and is capable of producing a flow of ...

power

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

The time rate at which work is done. Power is obtained in watts if work is expressed in joules and time is in seconds.

The total opposition that a circuit offers to the flow of alternating current (AC) or any other time varying current at a particular frequency. It is a combination of resistance R and reactance X, ...

string voltage

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

The voltage of a single series-connected solar array segment. Often this is the power system voltage.

polymer

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

A compound formed by polymerization that results in the chemical union of monomers or the continued reaction between lower molecular weight polymers.

electrode

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

A conductor, not necessarily metal, through which a current enters or leaves an electrolytic cell, arc, furnace, vacuum tube, gaseous discharge tube, or any conductor of the nonmetallic class.