Wheatstone bridge
Definitions
General Science
- noun a piece of equipment for measuring an unknown electrical resistance
Electronics
- A four-arm bridge circuit with a resistor in each arm, and which is used to measure unknown resistances. A Carey-Foster bridge, for instance is a type of Wheatstone bridge utilized to measure resistances which are nearly identical.
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