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Permittivity vs Permissivity - What's the difference?

permittivity | permissivity |

In physics terms the difference between permittivity and permissivity

is that permittivity is a property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other while permissivity is permittivity.

permittivity

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Noun

(wikipedia permittivity) (permittivities)
  • (physics) A property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other.

    • Derived terms

    * permittivity of free space

    permissivity

    English

    Noun

  • (biology) (of cells) Susceptibility to infection.
  • (physics) permittivity