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wheatstone bridge

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English

Syllables
wheat-stone bridge
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Etymology

Named after English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), who improved and popularized the original (1833) invention of Samuel Hunter Christie.

Inflected Forms

Wheatstone bridges (plural)

Questions

What does wheatstone bridge mean?
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.
Where does wheatstone bridge come from?
Named after English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), who improved and popularized the original (1833) invention of Samuel Hunter Christie.

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