Usually means: Early device for storing electricity.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leyden jar: Merriam-Webster
  2. Leyden jar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Leyden jar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Leyden jar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Leyden jar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leyden jar: Wordnik
  7. Leyden jar: Wiktionary
  8. Leyden jar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Leyden jar: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Leyden jar: Dictionary.com
  11. Leyden jar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Leyden Jar, Leyden jar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Leyden jar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Leyden jar: Rhymezone
  15. Leyden jar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. leyden jar: FreeDictionary.org
  17. leyden jar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Leyden jar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Leyden jar: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leyden jar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leyden jar: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leyden Jar: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Leyden jar)

noun:  (electrical engineering, historical) A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate static electricity between two electrodes.

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