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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A container made of a conductor, such as wire mesh or the metal frame of an aircraft, forming an equipotential shield around what it encloses and protecting it from external electric fields.
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- noun Any
conductive surrounding, idealized or practical, used tointerrupt the transmission ofelectromagnetic energy orelectrostatic discharge across it.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Michael Faraday, who constructed one in 1836.]
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