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hyperpolarizability
n. (context physics English) The condition of being hyperpolarizable
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Hyperpolarizability
The hyperpolarizability, a nonlinear-optical property of a molecule, is the second-order electric susceptibility per unit volume. See nonlinear optics.
Usage examples of "hyperpolarizability".
Her mother was in the living room, in front of the fire, reading to Charles Wallace, not from books about trains, or animals, which the twins had liked at that age, but from a scientific magazine, an article called “The Polarizabilities and Hyperpolarizabilities of Small Molecules,” by the theoretical chemist, Peter Liebmann.