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cyclotron a device for accelerating charged particles to very high energies in a spiral path using a fixed magnetic field and an alternating electric field.
electrophoresis the motion of particles, esp. colloids, in a relatively stationary fluid due to the influence of an electric field, usu. provided by immersed electrodes; cataphoresis.
ferroelectric of or relating to a nonconducting material that will polarize when an electric field is applied. [1/2 definitions]
piezoelectric effect an electric polarization that arises in some crystals when they are subjected to mechanical pressure, and, conversely, the mechanical deformation in these crystals that results when an electric field is applied to them.