butterfly capacitor
butterfly capacitor
[′bəd·ər‚flī kə′pas·əd·ər] (electricity)
A variable capacitor having stator and rotor plates shaped like butterfly wings, with the stator plates having an outer ring to provide an inductance so that both capacitance and inductance may be varied, thereby giving a wide tuning range.
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