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equipotential

 [e″kwĭ-po-ten´shal]
having similar and equal power or capability.

equipotential

/equi·po·ten·tial/ (e″kwĭ-pah-ten´shil) having similar and equal power or capability.

equipotential

1 (in physics) indicating bodies that have the same electrical potential.
2 pertaining to lines of force that have the same electrical potential.

equipotential

having similar and equal power or capability.
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A subsequent electrical survey, using a drill hole equipotential method, tested all the accessible diamond-drill holes in the immediate area to establish a drilling target.
Great Mining Camps of Canada 3. the history and geology of the Buchans Mine, Newfoundland and Labrador
The gravity measured on the Earth's physical surface is not directly comparable with normal gravity, which is generated by some equipotential mean Earth ellipsoid.
Towards unification of terrestrial gravity data sets in Estonia/ Terrestriliste raskuskiirenduse andmete uhtlustamine Eestis
The second term is the second order zonal harmonics and represents a deformation of the equipotential surface to a prolate ellipsoid aligned with the Earth-Moon axis.
On the tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon system: a cosmological model
3 we can see the equipotential energies of the scission configurations composed by those fragments given by the relation
The most compact scission configuration of fragments from low energy fission of [sup.234]U and [sup.236]U
His poem ['Prose'] designates a region which is, in a phrase of Proust's, 'une et pourtant alternative,' a region where equipotential worlds converge" (47).
Digesting Les Fleurs du Mal: imaginative spaces and liquid modernity in Baudelaire
Equipotential contours for surface and/or touch potentials, and potential profiles showing touch and step voltages along the chosen direction are presented.
Computer Aided Design of grounding system for high voltage test laboratory
As an earth ground does not exist at the drilling site at the South Pole, the generator frames are bonded to an equipotential grounding plane.
From the South Pole to the stars: Caterpillar gen-sets power a drill being used to construct the world's largest neutrino telescope at the South Pole
As this patient was undergoing a body-type procedure, the operating table was not connected to an equipotential earth.
A serious and repeatable electrical hazard--compressed electrical cord and an operating table
Conducted Current Density, I, is the vector quantity of current passing through a unit area of an equipotential surface; it is the product of the electrical conductivity and the electric field intensity.
Utility and limits of dowsing rods to chart the subsurface
Because the distribution of waters with very high concentrations of arsenic bears no apparent relation to the direction of groundwater flow, a map of underground hydrodynamic behavior, or isohypse chart (meters above sea level [MASL]), was drawn with equipotential lines showing the morphology of the phreatic surface (Figure 2).
Mapping of arsenic content and distribution in groundwater in the southeast pampa, Argentina
However, due to the ocean dynamics and other circumstances, this result is not an equipotential surface of the gravity field, so it still is not the geoid.
Analysis of geoid and sea level in the area of the JASON-1 calibration campaign, IBIZA 2003
The geoid is defined as an equipotential surface of the Earth's actual gravity field, (generally) inside the topographical masses on land and more or less coinciding with mean sea level at sea.
Effect of the GRACE satellite mission on gravity field studies in Fennoscandia and the Baltic Sea region/GRACE-satelliitide moju raskusjouvalja uuringutele Fennoskandia ja Balti mere piirkonnas
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