Diploe: The soft spongy material between the inside table and outside table (the interior and exterior bony plates) of the skull. The diploe contains bone marrow.
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( dÄp ' lÅ-Ä“ ' ) n. The spongy, porous, bony tissue between the hard outer and inner bone layers of the cranium ...
dip·lo·e (d p l-) n. The central layer of spongy, porous, bony tissue between the hard outer and inner bone layers of the cranium. dip lo·ic (-l-k) adj.
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary n. The product of either charge in an electric dipole with the distance separating them. The product of the strength of ...
di·pole (d p l) n. 1. Physics A pair of electric charges or magnetic poles, of equal magnitude but of opposite sign or polarity, separated by a small distance.
The Earth, with its magnetic field, is approximately a magnetic dipole. However, the "N" and "S" (north and south) poles are labeled geographically, which is the opposite ...