noun
- a system of electric charges or magnetic poles arranged in a specific pattern, or the field produced by such a system
Usage: physics
Examples
- The electric multipole expansion helps describe complex charge distributions.
- A dipole is the simplest type of multipole with two opposite charges.
- Scientists studied the multipole moments of the atomic nucleus.
- The magnetic multipole field decreases rapidly with distance.
- Quadrupole and octupole are higher-order multipole configurations.
- The multipole expansion is useful in electromagnetic theory.