How to Use dielectric constant in a Sentence

dielectric constant

noun

• Air has a dielectric constant of roughly 1, while water comes in at around 80.
  — Paul Perrault, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2016
• All else being equal, the capacitance between two electrodes depends on the dielectric constant of the substance between them.
  — Paul Perrault, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2016
• Some, such as hexagonal boron nitride, can act as gate dielectrics, having a dielectric constant similar to that of silicon dioxide, which was routinely used for that job until about a decade ago.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2020
• With this high electric polarization comes a large dielectric constant, which is a measure of a material’s ability to store electrical energy in an electric field.
  — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2017
• Because the capacitance is proportional to the dielectric constant, the capacitance is large for the parallel configuration.
  — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2017