dipole

Other forms of dipole

plural

dipoles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dipole

What does dipole mean?

dipole means "a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dipole?

dipole has 2 syllables: dipo-le. The stress falls on "dipo". In IPA it is /ˈdaɪˌpoʊl/.

What is another word for dipole?

Close synonyms include dipole antenna. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dipole a common word?

dipole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dipole?

8 words rhyme with dipole. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.