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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 the charge on either pole of a dipole and the distance separating them

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  • noun the moment of a dipole

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