Quadrupole vs Quadruplicate - What's the difference?
quadrupole | quadruplicate |
(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.
having four parts
* 1903:' H.G. Wells, ''Mankind in the Making'' – The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or ' quadruplicate ) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library...
four times over, multiplied by four
* 1891:' Rudyard Kipling, ''American Notes'' – ... Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a ' quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.
in quadruplicate : four times over, in four copies
* c.1886:' Rudyard Kipling, ''"The Lovers' Litany"'' – Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in ' quadruplicate .
To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.
As nouns the difference between quadrupole and quadruplicate
is that quadrupole is quadripole, two-port network while quadruplicate is in quadruplicate : four times over, in four copies.As an adjective quadruplicate is
having four parts.As a verb quadruplicate is
to replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.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 ).