How to Use dipole in a Sentence
dipole
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This time the dipole state will occur around the turn of the 2030s.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
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The magnetic field due to a bar magnet looks like the electric field due to a dipole.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
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The dipole is a little antenna that allows both of those to happen at the same time.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2017
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This dipole field is going to be important for the next equation.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
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The one problem with magnets over electric charges is that magnets come in dipoles.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2010
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The changes in trade wind strength can therefore result in the formation of tropical ocean dipoles.
—Jennifer Fitchett, Quartz Africa, 16 Feb. 2020
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The dipole antenna was a little trickier to put in place.
—Denise Coffey, courant.com, 8 July 2019
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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
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Their magnetic dipoles can be aligned by external fields and then hold their place once those fields disappear.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2023
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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
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This dipole model has two other problems, said Rubin and Heitlauf.
—Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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The Indian Ocean dipole again gave Indonesia an extremely dry summer, Field says.
—Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2019
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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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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
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In any event, the end result is likely to be a warm-West cold-East temperature configuration, which scientists describe as the North American dipole pattern.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2018
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Regardless what it's called, this dipole pattern – abnormally high temperatures over much of the West along with chilly conditions in the East – has dominated North American weather in four of the past five winters.
—Jennifer Francis, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2018
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In this concept drawing of a dendrite-like nanoscale device, voltage pulses applied consecutively to all five gates from left to right flip all electric dipoles in the ferroelectric insulating layer from down to up.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
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Calculations for specific quantities of water require that the numbers of seconds elapsed during the decades of the diminished dipole must be multiplied by the diminished dipole energy.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2015
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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
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The resulting warm-West cold-East temperature configuration is referred to by scientists as the North American winter dipole.
—The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 Dec. 2017
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This dipole cycles between these extremes over three to five year periods, ordinarily with a 1°C difference in sea surface temperature.
—Jennifer Fitchett, Quartz Africa, 16 Feb. 2020
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The dipole is defined by positive and negative sea surface temperature variations.
—Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Jan. 2020
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