Dipole

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  • noun. A pair of separated electric charges or magnetic poles, of equal magnitude but of opposite sign or polarity.
  • noun. A molecule having two such charges or poles.
  • noun. An antenna, usually fed from the center, consisting of two equal rods extending outward in a straight line.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna), that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles)
  • noun. any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges
  • noun. a dipole antenna
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  • noun. a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance
  • noun. an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center
  • Word Usage
    "Another strategy was to create "electrochromic dyes" with large changes in dipole moment between ground and excited state, so that a change in neuronal membrane potential could shift the peak wavelengths of absorbance or fluorescence4."
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