Contextualizebeta

antiferroelectric

adj

Etymology

From anti- + ferroelectric or antiferro- + electric.

  1. derived from ἤλεκτρον — “amber”
  2. borrowed from ēlectricus — “electrical; of amber”
  3. formed as ferroelectric — “ferro- + electric”
  4. prefixed as antiferroelectric — “anti + ferroelectric”

Definitions

  1. Describing a state in which dipoles are arranged antiparallel to adjacent ones, resulting…

    Describing a state in which dipoles are arranged antiparallel to adjacent ones, resulting in a net zero polarization

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antiferroelectric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA