The dipole moment of an object is a measure of how electrical charge is distributed within it.
Potential as a greenhouse gas can be determined by the dipole moment of a gas.
Microwaves heat water because they are resonant with lots of tightly spaced vibrational modes of the molecule's dipole moment.
Description of plans for a dedicated experiment to measure the muon electric dipole moment.
Those are the vibrations that present an oscillation of the dipole moment.
He knew that benzene did not have a dipole moment, that is, the electronic charge was symmetrically distributed.
Atomic charges and total dipole moment for selected geometries of the water monomer.
Being a symmetric planar molecule it has a dipole moment of zero.
The magnitude of the dipole moment is set by the length of this orientation vector.
British Dictionary definitions for dipole moment
dipole moment
noun
1.
(chem) a measure of the polarity in a chemical bond or molecule, equal to the product of one charge and the distance between the charges μ
dipole moment in Medicine
dipole moment di·pole moment (dī'pōl') n.
The product of either charge in an electric dipole with the distance separating them.
The product of the strength of either pole in a magnetic dipole with the distance separating them.
dipole moment in Science
dipole moment
The product of the strength of either of the charges in an electric dipole and the distance separating the two charges. It is expressed in coulomb meters. Dipole moment is a vector quantity; its direction is defined as toward the positive charge.
The product of the strength of either of the poles in an magnetic dipole and the distance separating the two poles. Dipole moment is a vector quantity; its direction is defined as toward the magnetic north pole. Since magnetic monopoles apparently do not exist, the magnetic moment is usually calculated by analysis of the flow of electric current inducing the magnetic field.