magnetic dipole (redirected from dipole, magnetic)

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A dipole with opposing magnetic poles.

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magnetic dipole

A model of an object that generates a magnetic field in which the field is considered to emanate from two opposite poles, as in the north and south poles of a magnet, much as an electric field emanates from a positive and a negative charge (each of which is a monopole) in an electric dipole. Even though the existence of magnetic monopoles as isolable particles has not been established, the magnetic dipole remains a useful simplification of the electrodynamics involved in magnetism. Magnetic dipoles experience torque in the presence of magnetic fields.

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magnetic dipole - a dipole with opposing magnetic poles dipole - a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance