electric dipole

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   a dipole with equal and opposite electric charges

   Synonymselectric doublet

   Broaderdipole

Questions about electric dipole

What does electric dipole mean?

electric dipole means "a dipole with equal and opposite electric charges".

What is another word for electric dipole?

Close synonyms include electric doublet. 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 electric dipole a common word?

electric 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.