| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Wheatstone bridge |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Wheat·stone bridge |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  hw t st n , wt- |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also Wheat·stone's bridge (-stnz) |
| 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | After Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), British physicist and inventor.
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