Definition of "hexapole" [hexapole]

• Anything having six poles or electrodes (noun)

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• "Göttingen in the late forties I had attended a seminar given by Helmut Friedburg, a doctoral Student of Wolfgang Paul, on focussing spins with a magnetic hexapole."
• "In this case the excited hydrogen atoms are selected by a hexapole magnet (Paul)."
• "A common magnet has two poles and is called a dipole, one with four poles, a quadrupole, one with six, a hexapole etc."