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Wheatstone

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Noun

1. sir charles wheatstone, wheatstone

English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875)

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Wheatstone

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noun
a device for determining the value of an unknown resistance by comparison with a known standard resistance

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Wheatstone

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1. 
a divided bridge circuit (see bridge1 (sense 11) having four resistances in series, used to find the value of an unknown resistance by comparing it with three known resistances
2. 
a device containing such a circuit

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