capacitiveadj.

1916 Standardiz. Rules Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 97 Capacitive Coupler. An apparatus which, by electric fields, joins portions of two radio frequency circuits.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Capacitative.

1943 Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 74 Common-impedance coupling, the coupling between two oscillating circuits by means of a current path which is common to both. (This coupling may be inductive, capacitive or resistive.)

1943 Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 74 Capacitive tuning, a form of tuning in which the capacitance component is varied.

1946 Electronic Engin. 18 71 There will be two forms of parasitic coupling present: capacitive and resistive.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 256 An inductive impedance increases with frequency; a capacitative impedance decreases with frequency.

1964 R. F. Ficchi Electr. Interference 214 Capacitive coupling is the association of two or more circuits with one another by means of capacitance mutual to the circuits.

1950 Physical Rev. 79 696/1 A capacitatively loaded coaxial-line resonator.

1965 Wireless World Sept. 420/1 The r.f. stage is capacitatively coupled to the base of Tr₂.

1967 Vacuum 17 139 RF sputtering of metals can be achieved by capacitatively coupling the power supply to the metal electrode.

1984 Sensors & Actuators VI. 151 The device relies for its operation on the specific bulk absorption of an ionic species into a macroscopic phase deposited on a substrate, capacitatively coupled to a MOSFET.

1985 Proc. 17th Internat. Conf. Physics of Semiconductors 396 Capacitively coupled measurements of the magnetic resistance reveal new structure as the Fermi level moves between Landau levels.