Quadruple vs Quadrupole - What's the difference?
quadruple | quadrupole |
Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
To multiply by four.
To increase by a factor of four.
(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 ,
(physics) A magnet with two north poles and two south poles, used to focus a beam of particles.
As an adjective quadruple
is being four times as long, as big or as many of something.As a verb quadruple
is to multiply by four.As a noun quadrupole is
a distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.quadruple
English
(wikipedia quadruple)Adjective
(-)Verb
- Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
- Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements .
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(coefficient) ----quadrupole
English
(wikipedia quadrupole)Noun
(en noun)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 ).