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Noun: permittivity  pur-mu'ti-vu-tee
  1. (physics) a property of a dielectric medium that determines how well it transmits an electric field; it is determined by how much the medium polarizes in response to an electric field

Derived forms: permittivities

Encyclopedia: Permittivity