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Wheatstone bridge

Definitions

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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instrument used to measure an unknown electrical 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.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

After Sir Charles Wheatstone, who improved and popularized the original (1833) invention of Samuel Hunter Christie.

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