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Quadripole vs Quadrupole - What's the difference?

quadripole | quadrupole |

As nouns the difference between quadripole and quadrupole

is that quadripole is an electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals while quadrupole is a distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.

quadripole

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals
  • Synonyms

    * two-port network

    quadrupole

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.
  • * 1975 , David M. Cook, The Theory of the Electromagnetic Field , page 123,
  • Consider a linear quadrupole consisting of a point charge of strength 2q'' at the origin and point charges of strength —''q'' at (0, 0, ''a'') and (0, 0, —''a ).
  • (physics) A magnet with two north poles and two south poles, used to focus a beam of particles.
  • See also

    * quadripole