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Definition of Equipotential
1. a. Having the same potential.
Definition of Equipotential
1. Adjective. Having equal potential. ¹
2. Noun. A region whose every point has the same potential. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Equipotential
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Equipotential
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Equipotential
Literary usage of Equipotential
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"When there are four electrodes, two of each kind on an unlimited sheet, an
equipotential curve is given by the equation, rr1 = crfr'. ..."
2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"equipotential Surfaces. 46.] If a surface described or supposed to be described
in the electric field is such that the electric potential is the same at ..."
3. Electrical Engineering: The Theory and Characteristics of Electrical by Clarence Victor Christie (1917)
"equipotential Surfaces.—Surfaces of which all points are at the same ...
Any spherical surface drawn about the center of A is an equipotential surface. ..."
4. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"Motion across equipotential Surfaces, from one surface to another, implies movement
... A mass mt moved up from equipotential surface No. 10 to surface No. ..."
5. Meteorology: A Text-book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"By an equipotential surface is meant a surface containing all points tiai
surfaces •which have the same potential difference as regards the f0"1 their earth ..."
6. Principles of Direct-current Machines by Alexander Suss Langsdorf (1919)
"equipotential Lines and Surfaces.—The locus of all points in a magnetic field
which have the same magnetic potential is called an equipotential surface. ..."
7. An Introduction to Mathematical Physics by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1912)
"Such surfaces are called equipotential surfaces. The direction cosines of the
normal to the surface at the point x, y, z are proportional to ^ ^ ^ or to 3V ..."
8. Vestiges of Pre-metric Weights and Measures Persisting in Metric-system by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1881)
"If the nodal line intersects itself, then the point P is on a line of equilibrium,
and the equipotential surface through P cuts itself in that line. ..."
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