electric susceptibility

noun, Electricity
1.
(when the components of electrical polarization are linear combinations of the components of the electric field) the coefficient or set of coefficients that multiply the components of the electric field.
Also called susceptibility.
Compare polarization (def 3b).
British Dictionary definitions for electric susceptibility

electric susceptibility

noun
1.
another name for susceptibility (sense 4a)
Encyclopedia Article for electric susceptibility

quantitative measure of the extent to which an electric field applied to a dielectric material causes polarization, the slight displacement of positive and negative charge within the material. For most linear dielectric materials, the polarization P is directly proportional to the average electric field strength E so that the ratio of the two, P/E, is a constant that expresses an intrinsic property of the material. The electric susceptibility, chie, in the centimetre-gram-second (cgs) system, is defined by this ratio; that is, chie = P/E. In the metre-kilogram-second (mks) system, electric susceptibility is defined slightly differently by including the constant permittivity of a vacuum, epsilon0, in the expression; that is, chie = P/(epsilon0E). In both systems the electric susceptibility is always a dimensionless positive number. Because of the slight difference in definition, the value of the electric susceptibility of a given material in the mks system is 4pi times its value in the cgs system

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