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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A measure of the ability of a material to interact with an electric field and become polarized by the field, so that the field within the material is weaker than the field in the absence of the material. The permittivity of a material is the product of the dielectric constant of the material and the permittivity of a perfect vacuum, which is defined to be about 8.854 × 10−12 farad per meter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In elec., degree of permittance; the ratio of permittance of a dielectric to that of air.
- noun In electricity, degree of permittance; the ratio of permittance of a dielectric to that of air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics A property of a
dielectric medium that determines theforces thatelectric charges placed in the mediumexert on each other.
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Examples
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This ability is represented by constants or fixed quantities that are called the permittivity (for electricity) and permeability (for magnetism).
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Ford Fusion hybrid hypermiles, goes 1,445 miles on a single tank Shai Agassi talks about Better Place, $20,000 EV, batteries extra EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry)
AutoblogGreen 2009
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Ford Fusion hybrid hypermiles, goes 1,445 miles on a single tank Shai Agassi talks about Better Place, $20,000 EV, batteries extra EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry)
AutoblogGreen 2009
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Ford Fusion hybrid hypermiles, goes 1,445 miles on a single tank Shai Agassi talks about Better Place, $20,000 EV, batteries extra EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry)
AutoblogGreen 2009
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LA 2009: GM announces 100-vehicle Volt test fleet for utilities in California EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry)
Autoblog Green 2009
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Ford Fusion hybrid hypermiles, goes 1,445 miles on a single tank Shai Agassi talks about Better Place, $20,000 EV, batteries extra EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry)
AutoblogGreen 2009
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LA 2009: GM announces 100-vehicle Volt test fleet for utilities in California EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry)
Autoblog Green 2009
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The trick is to create a material in which the permittivity and permeability are complementary to the values in a nearby region of space containing the mouse we want to hide.
Illusion Cloaks: Create Illusion To Make One Object Look Like Another | Impact Lab 2009
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So according to Anaconda, then Gauss's Laws for electrostatics and magnostatics must be; rho/ epsilon0 = 0, where rho is the charge density and epsilon0 is the permittivity.
Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today 2009
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I think that register Fermi is affected strongly by Universe expansion, changes in density of energy of vacuum; and probably changes in permittivity and permeability.
Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team | Universe Today 2009
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