dipole moment
noun
: the moment produced by a magnetic or electric dipole
especially
: the product of the distance between the two poles and the magnitude of either pole
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This enabled them to study neutron-rich nuclei with high precision and determine two properties of chromium-61 known as spin and magnetic dipole moment, which reveal how protons and neutrons are distributed inside the nucleus.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
The strength of this field is the electron's magnetic dipole moment, and it has been measured to very high precision.
—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
This charge separation is referred to as the electric dipole moment (EDM).
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
The presence of phonons, of course, affects those lattices’s dipole moments as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
The strength of this field is the electron's magnetic dipole moment, and it has been measured to very high precision.
—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
This charge separation is referred to as the electric dipole moment (EDM).
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
The presence of phonons, of course, affects those lattices’s dipole moments as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
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“Dipole moment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dipole%20moment. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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