17b end terminations 22 and 24 are formed by coating the left and right side faces as shown of the ceramic body 20 this is accomplished by a standard coating of those body side faces with a silver loaded paste and heating to remove the organic components and to solidify and bond the terminals to the ceramic the capacitance of this capacitor is mainly attributable to the capacitance between the conventional overlapping electrodes 15 and 16 that are connected at opposite side faces to terminals 22 and 24 respectively the region of 34 active 34 ceramic dielectric between overlapping electrodes 15 and 16 is indicated by x 39 s in the figures coplanar electrode 17a is connected to terminal 22 and has an overlapping capacitive relationship also indicated by x 39 s with electrode 16 coplanar electrode 17b connected to capacitor terminal 24 has no overlapping capacitive relationship with any other electrode and has a relatively small edge fringe or gap capacitance with its mutually coplanar partner 17a the 34 active 34 gap dielectric therebetween is indicated by one x in fig1 the preferred method of this invention includes building in a first phase a test capacitor like the capacitor of fig1 by using the above prior art curtain coating process except omitting the coplanar electrodes 17a and 17b of this invention or by omitting at least the electrode 17b that has essentially no capacitance with an adjacent co.