potenciômetro
Portuguese, noun
potenciômetro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “potentiometer, a user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, potenciómetro is a different word: “European Portuguese standard spelling of potenciômetro”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aparelho que mede as diferenças de potencial elétrico em condições de quase reversibilidade e as forças…”.
What does potenciômetro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepotentiometer, a user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.
noun
- 1
masculineEuropean Portuguese standard spelling of potenciômetro
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aparelho que mede as diferenças de potencial elétrico em condições de quase reversibilidade e as forças eletromotrizes
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of potenciômetro
- potenciómetros plural
- potenciômetros plural
- potenciómetro alternative Portugal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to potenciômetro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is potenciômetro in Portuguese?
potenciômetro appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).