Definitions
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- noun physics A
multipole configuration with eight equal charges arranged in a circular pattern. - noun physics Any configuration or analysis having
eightfold symmetry .
Etymologies
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octo- + pole
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Examples
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If the microwave background at the multipoles is correlated with the geometry and direction of motion of the solar system, and the incoherence manifests via octopole and quadrupole components in a bound universe, then there should be a center of gravity at the center of the visible universe that correlates to the ecliptic.
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What is perhaps not so widely discussed is that two of the lowest multipoles - the quadrupole and octopole - are tightly correlated in the sense that the quadrupole plane and the three octopole planes are aligned.
New Views of the Universe Mark 2005
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