The Science of Living Things series demonstrates that Bobbie Kalman and her staff have turned out yet another informative and finely produced series of books. . . . this whole series would make a welcome addition to the elementary school library -- Kay Lehr, Fort Rouge School, Manitoba, Jan. 1999.
perpendicularity - the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon) oblongness, rectangularity - the property of being shaped like a rectangle.
Freebase(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Permittivity. In electromagnetism, absolute permittivity is the measure of the resistance that is encountered when forming an electric field in a medium. In other words, permittivity is a measure of how an electric field affects, and is affected by, a dielectric medium.