quadrupole

About 0.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.
2. noun A magnet with two north poles and two south poles, used to focus a beam of particles.

Similar words

skew quadropole quadrapole sextupole antiferroquadrupole dipole multipole electric dipole octopole quadpolaron

Often followed by

moment mass splitting interaction moments coupling and resonance ion field

Word family

quadrupoles