DIPOLE MOMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dipole moment mean? 

• DIPOLE MOMENT (noun)
  The noun DIPOLE MOMENT has 1 sense:

1. the moment of a dipole

  Familiarity information: DIPOLE MOMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPOLE MOMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The moment of a dipole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("dipole moment" is a kind of...):

moment (a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dipole moment"):

electric dipole moment (the dipole moment in an electric dipole)

magnetic dipole moment ((physics) a current loop gives rise to a magnetic field characteristic of a magnetic dipole)

 Context examples 

Computational chemistry is the branch of theoretical chemistry whose major goals are to create efficient computer programs that calculate the properties of molecules (such as total energy, dipole moment, vibrational frequencies) and to apply these programs to concrete chemical objects.

(Computational Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)