permittivity.

A property relating an electric field in a material to the electric displacement associated with that field.

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Words that belong together

• relative permittivity
• a material’s permittivity

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The calculation used the material’s permittivity rather than its conductivity.

Relative permittivity helped explain why the replacement insulation changed the circuit’s response.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.