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What meaning would you give to the capacitance of a single conductor ?

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If the single conductor is spherical in shape then it can be assumed as a capacitor with outer sphere at infinity. If single capacitor is a metal plate, then it can be assumed as a capacitor with second metal plate at infinity.
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