How to Use dipole in a Sentence

dipole

noun
  • This time the dipole state will occur around the turn of the 2030s.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This dipole field is going to be important for the next equation.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The magnetic field due to a bar magnet looks like the electric field due to a dipole.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The one problem with magnets over electric charges is that magnets come in dipoles.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2010
  • Earth's dipole field is created by its liquid outer iron core.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The dipole is a little antenna that allows both of those to happen at the same time.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The changes in trade wind strength can therefore result in the formation of tropical ocean dipoles.
    — Jennifer Fitchett, Quartz Africa, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Their magnetic dipoles can be aligned by external fields and then hold their place once those fields disappear.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2023
  • This also means that the electric dipoles cannot follow the change of the AC electric field as fast.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2017
  • Each dipole antenna extends to about 6 meters.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2026
  • When the sun is dormant, its magnetic field is a dipole, like a bar magnet with positive and negative ends.
    — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This dipole model has two other problems, said Rubin and Heitlauf.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Roughly speaking, bending the crystal causes the dipoles to align, creating a bulk electric field.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
  • One of the most significant is called the CMB dipole anisotropy.
    — Subir Sarkar, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The researchers designed a lunar telescope array that would include hundreds of simple dipole antennas laid flat on the ground.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 18 July 2019
  • Up top are two dipole antennas, each of which consists of two collapsible rods pointing in opposite directions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But unlike Earth’s magnetic field or that of a bar magnet, the sun’s magnetism is patchy and highly fluid, even during its dipole stage.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The dipole antennas are mounted perpendicular to each other on a small turntable, forming an X when seen from above.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Trapping molecular ions this way isn't new, but no one had previously thought such traps would work for an electric dipole measurement on electrons.
    — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Earth’s magnetic field is generated in its core, producing a clear north and south pole known as a dipole that roughly aligns with the axis of the planet.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The strength of the dipole governs a process that eventually flips the polarity of the magnetic field, which causes the solar cycle.
    — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • During solar minimum, the sun's magnetic field is close to a dipole, with one north pole and one south pole, similar to Earth's magnetic field.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Earlier results have shown that the fine structure is slightly different along a specific axis of the Universe, called a dipole.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The Indian Ocean dipole again gave Indonesia an extremely dry summer, Field says.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2019
  • This was because water molecules are dipoles, with uneven concentrations of positive and negative charge.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The dipole is defined by positive and negative sea surface temperature variations.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The dipole array telescope—a mass of wires and poles stretched across an area the size of 57 tennis courts—took Cambridge University students more than two years to build.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But when emissions of greenhouse gases and their effect on the climate system were added into the computer simulations, the dipole did indeed seem to intensify.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2014
  • For example, a dipole antenna generates a stronger electric field, and a loop antenna generates a more powerful magnetic field.
    — Seungyoung Ahn, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2013
  • And second, the model doesn’t satisfy a consistency check involving the relationship between the dipole and monopole terms in the equations.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2019

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