Capacitor – The Binding Chaos Lexicon

A cluster of interactions in the form of an object, rite or idea which serves as an anima bank. A capacitor stores an excess of anima which can be accessed in other times and places.

Expanded explanation

A capacitor is a particular kind of anima bank, defined by the electrical metaphor it borrows. In a circuit a capacitor stores charge for release later. In Marsh's model a capacitor stores an excess of anima that can be drawn on in other times and places, holding life energy across a gap in space or time. What forms it is a cluster of interactions given durable shape as an object, a rite or an idea. A relic, a ceremony or a belief accumulates the anima of many interactions and holds it, so that someone encountering the object, performing the rite or taking up the idea much later and elsewhere can access the stored charge. This is why Marsh earlier defines art as work that channels primary anima or acts as a capacitor for it: art is one of the clearest cases of a made thing that stores life energy for release in whoever meets it.

Examples

A relic or a rite: An object or ceremony that has accumulated the anima of many interactions holds it as a capacitor, available to those who encounter it later.
Art as a capacitor: Marsh defines art partly as work that acts as a capacitor for primary anima, storing life energy for release in the viewer.
An idea that holds charge: A belief carrying the accumulated energy of many interactions can serve as a capacitor accessed in other times and places.

How others use it

In electronics a capacitor is a component that stores electrical energy in a field and releases it later. Marsh borrows the function, storage of a charge for later release, and applies it to anima, distinguishing the capacitor as the storing kind of anima bank. The move is of a piece with her broader treatment of life energy as something that behaves, in definable ways, like a physical quantity.