Capacitance - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: capacitancecapacitive
of or pertaining to capacitance...
capacitance
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored...
Capacitate
To render capable to enable to qualify...
capacitor
a device used in electronic circuits to hold electrical charge consisting of two conducting plates separated by a nonconducting dielectric medium it is characterized by its capacitance...
Megafarad
One of the larger measures of electrical capacitance amounting to one million farads a macrofarad...
microphone
An instrument for converting sounds into electrical signals for the purpose of recording or amplifying the sounds It produces its effects in various ways as for example by the changes of intensity in an electric current occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies especially of imperfect conductors under the action of acoustic vibrations Other forms of microphone may use changes in capacitance or other phenomena to transduce the sounds into electrical signals...
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
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