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Leyden jar en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlaɪdən ˌdʒɑɹ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Named after the city of Leiden (in the Netherlands), where it was invented.

Meanings

1. (historical) A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate static electricity between two electrodes.
   • Cavendish analyzed the mathematics of musical intervals, formulated the theory of electrical potential, and was the first scientist to realize that a solution’s electrical conductivity varies with its concentration. He proposed that a long-tailed fish called the torpedo was able to generate its own current like a living battery, and then proved it by sculpting an artificial fish in his lab out of shoe leather, pewter plates, glass tubes, and sheepskin and hooking it up to Leyden jars, creating a perfect simulation of the fish’s electrical organs. 2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 22:

Forms

Hypernyms

capacitor

Synonyms

Kleistian jar · Leyden phial

Translations (54)

pt garrafa de Leiden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · hu leideni palack (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · da Leydens flaske (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · et Leideni purk (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · id Tabung Leyden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · cs leidenská láhev (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ko 라이덴병 (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ga crúsca Leyden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · de Leidener Flasche (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · be ле́йдэнскі слоі́к (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · eu Leyden ontzi (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · de Kleistsche Flasche (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ar قَارُورَة لَيْدَن (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ka ლეიდენის ქილა (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ru ле́йденская ба́нка (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · nl Leidse fles (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · pt garrafa de Leida (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · fi Leydenin pullo (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · sv kleistsk flaska (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · gl botella de Leiden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · cmn 來登瓶 /来登瓶 (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ro butelie de Leyda (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · cmn 萊頓瓶 /莱顿瓶 (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · eu Leyden botila (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · es botella de Leyden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · eo botelo de Leiden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · id Tabung Leiden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · mk лајденска тегла (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · it bottiglia di Leida (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · nb leidnerflaske (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · sv leidnerflaska (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · nn leidenflaske (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · da leydnerflaske (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · sv leidenflaska (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · fr bouteille de Leyde (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · es botella de Leiden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · vi chai Leiden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · nn leidenerflaske (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ja ライデン瓶 (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · de Flaschenkondensator (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · nb leydnerflaske (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · fi Leidenin pullo (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ta லேய்டின் கொள்கலன் (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · pt garrafa de Leyden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · de Kondensationsflasche (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · pl butelka lejdejska (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · vi chai Leyden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · mk Лајден тегла (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · el φιάλη του Λέιντεν (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · tr Leyden kavanozu (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · el λουγδουνική λάγηνος (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · ca ampolla de Leiden (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · uk ле́йденська ба́нка (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity) · bg лайденска стъкленица (glass jar used to accumulate static electricity)