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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The product of either charge in an electric dipole with the distance separating them.
- noun The product of the strength of either pole in a magnetic dipole with the distance separating them.
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- noun the
vector product of thecharge on eitherpole of adipole and thedistance separating them
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- noun the moment of a dipole
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