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Definition of Dipole
1. Noun. A pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance.
2. Noun. An aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center.
Definition of Dipole
1. Noun. (physics) any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna), that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles) ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dipole
1. a pair of equal and opposite electric charges [n -S] : DIPOLAR [adj]
Medical Definition of Dipole
1. A molecule that has both negative and positive charges. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipole
Literary usage of Dipole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"One of such methods is dipole electromagnetic profiling based on the recording,
... The dipole electromagnetic profiling method serves for revealing and ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"As long as the anthrone chromophore remains planar, the transition vector to the
lowest vibrational level is zero and there is no dipole-dipole coupling ..."
3. Electricity and Magnetism by Benjamin Crowell (2002)
"I (b) A water molecule is a dipole. The simplest set of sources that can occur
with electricity but not with gravity is the dipole, (a), consisting of a ..."
4. Bose-Einstein Condensation: An Introduction edited by Keith Burnett, Mark Edwards, Charles W. Clark (1996)
"In the presence of light fields, however, the two-body potential is dominated at
low densities by the dipole-dipole interaction between ground and excited ..."
5. Opportunities In High Magnetic Field Science by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"A solid-state technique called magic-angle spinning removes broadening due to
dipole-dipole and other interactions to lowest order, but higher-order effects ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"In such a case, the cohesive energy can perhaps be thought of as arising largely
from mutual polarization in which the dipole of one H2O polarizes both the ..."