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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument or a circuit consisting of four resistors or their equivalent in series, used to determine the value of an unknown resistance when the other three resistances are known.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
resistance , 3.
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- noun An
instrument used tomeasure an unknownelectrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bridge used to measure resistances
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Sir Charles Wheatstone, (1802–1875), British physicist and inventor.]
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After Sir Charles Wheatstone, who improved and popularized the original (1833) invention of Samuel Hunter Christie.
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