Capacitor

Description

A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores electrical energy in an electric field. The
effect of a capacitor is known as capacitance. While capacitance exists between any two electrical conductors of a
circuit in sufficiently close proximity, a capacitor is specifically designed to provide and enhance this effect for a
variety of practical applications by consideration of size, shape, and positioning of closely spaced conductors, and
the intervening dielectric material. A capacitor was therefore historically first known as an electric condenser