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| Wheat·stone bridge [ wt stn brìj, hwt stn brìj ] (plural Wheat·stone bridg·es) |
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device for measuring unknown electrical resistance: a device consisting of an electrical circuit, three known resistances, and a galvanometer, used for measuring an unknown resistance
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| [Late 19th century. After Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), British physicist who popularized it] |
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