Permittivity Definition

pûrmĭ-tĭvĭ-tē
permittivities
noun

Dielectric constant.

Webster's New World
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.
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Other Word Forms of Permittivity

Noun

Singular:
permittivity
Plural:
permittivities

Permittivity Sentence Examples

  • Nothing is going to have a relative permittivity less than that of a vacuum!

  • At higher temperatures the increased thermal vibrations cause the permittivity to drop again.

  • The refractive index, n, is given by the square root of the relative dielectric permittivity, i.e. .

  • Explain the relationship between electrical permittivity, susceptibility and polarization.

  • These artificial composites exhibit the unusual left-handedness, i.e. simultaneously negative permittivity and negative permeability.

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