English Explanatory Dictionary

Wheatstone bridge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Wheatstone bridge Wheatstone bridges

Etymology

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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