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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Leyden jar
a device for storing electric charge, consisting essentially of a metal rod in a glass jar lined inside and outside with tinfoil.

Etymology: (1815–25; so called because invented in Leyden)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Leiden jar, Leyden jar
an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest

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Webster Dictionary

1. leyden jar
alt. of Leyden phial

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. leyden jar
an electric condenser, a cylindrical glass bottle lined inside and outside with metal to within a short distance from the top, while a brass rod connected with the inside coating extends upward through a wooden stopper terminating in a knob.

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The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. leyden jar
A form of static condenser.

In its usual form it consists of a glass jar. Tinfoil is pasted around the lower portions of its exterior and interior surfaces, covering from one-quarter to three-quarters of the walls in ordinary examples. The rest of the glass is preferably shellacked or painted over with insulating varnish, q. v. The mouth is closed with a wooden or cork stopper and through its centre a brass rod passes which by a short chain or wire is in connection with the interior coating of the jar. The top of the rod carries a brass knob or ball.

If such a jar is held by the tinfoil-covered surface in one hand and its knob is held against the excited prime conductor of a static machine its interior becomes charged; an equivalent quantity of the same electricity is repelled through the person of the experimenter to the earth and when removed from the conductor it will be found to hold a bound charge. If the outer coating and knob are both touched or nearly touched by a conductor a disruptive discharge through it takes place.

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