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Permittivity vs Polarizability - What's the difference?

permittivity | polarizability |

In physics|lang=en terms the difference between permittivity and polarizability

is that permittivity is (physics) a property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other while polarizability is (physics) the relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field.

As nouns the difference between permittivity and polarizability

is that permittivity is (physics) a property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other while polarizability is (physics) the relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field.

permittivity

English

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

    polarizability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia polarizability) (polarizabilities)
  • (physics) The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field