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Etymology 1 n. An appellation owned by a single winery. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context physics English) A magnetic monopole. 2 A monopole antenna. 3 An electrical power transmission line having one direct-current conductor and a ground (earth) connection.
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Monopole may refer to:
A monopole ("monopoly" in French) is an area controlled by a single winery (wine company) and can be as small as a lieu-dit (vineyard) or as large as an entire appellation d'origine contrôlée, such as Bordeaux or Champagne. Frequently this is mentioned on the label and it is rare for only one winery to produce all the wine from an area entitled to a certain name. Each wine is sold by only one company.
The Napoleonic inheritance laws typically caused vineyards to be so finely divided that négociants are needed to bottle commercial quantities of a wine. Whether a monopole indicates a wine of unusual quality or not is a matter of debate.
In mathematics, a monopole is a connection over a principal bundle G with a section (the Higgs field) of the associated adjoint bundle. The connection and Higgs field should satisfy the Bogomolny equations and be of finite action.
Monopole is the fifth studio album by British indie pop musical project White Town, released in 2011 through Bzangy Records.
Usage examples of "monopole".
The magnetite is then subject to magnetic pulses, sufficient to extract monopoles form a depth of a few centimeters.
His mind and body had never entirely adjusted to a monopolar universe, a world where machines no longer had moving parts, switches, dials or knobs, but were only smooth-faced blocks of germanium-impregnated stone designed to trap magnetic monopoles and channel them into electrical paths impressed on the substance of the block.
This arid, almost scholastic tradition argues that, if one can identify appropriate mind properties and processes, then one can model these properties and processes in abstract thought-experiments or sets of mathematical symbols and subsequently incarnate them (or, perhaps better to say, 'inmachinate' them) into silicon components, optical switches or magnetic monopoles just as well as into the complex bits of carbon chemistry out of which evolutionary processes have generated real brains.
Whereas electric charges were the direct sources of electric fields, as far as was known there were no equivalent magnetic charges - that is to say, no magnetic monopoles.
And a magnetic monopole detector, orbiting the sun out of the plane of the ecliptic, had captured a trace of what looked to be a fractionally charged unconfined particle with a mass as big as a bacterium—.
But Bussard ramjets commonly used magnetic monopoles, and monopoles could be valuable in other contexts.