potential gradient

noun

, Electricity.

the rate of change of potential with respect to distance in the direction of greatest change.

First recorded in 1890–95

For the same current, therefore, the potential gradient is higher in the coloured solution and lower in the colourless one.

The potential difference between the two is recorded, and the potential gradient is thus found.

At most stations a negative potential gradient is exceptional, unless during rain or thunder.

The different elements—potential gradient, dissipation, ionization and radioactivity—are clearly not independent of one another.

No distinct relationship has yet been established between potential gradient and radioactivity.

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