Provenance: ferroelectric

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1. Term "ferroelectric" created

   Jul 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC

2. Definition 1 · revision 1 writtenVictoria Bradford

   Jul 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC

   Initial contribution A ceramic material with a switchable spontaneous polarization via positively and negatively biased electric fields, due to weird behaviors of charge density in noncentrosymmetric dielectric crystals

3. Upvoted definition 1 · revision 1A community member

   Jul 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC

4. Upvoted definition 1 · revision 1A community member

   Jul 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC

5. Upvoted definition 1 · revision 1A community member

   Jul 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC

6. Upvoted definition 1 · revision 1A community member

   Jul 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC

7. Comment posted on definition 1 · revision 1Colton Gerber

   Jul 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM UTC

   Is it possible for something to be both ferroelectric *and* ferromagnetic?

8. Definition 2 · revision 1 generated by AIgemma3revision 20

   Aug 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM UTC

   AI-generated definition A material that exhibits spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by an external electric field.

9. Upvoted AI-authored definition 2 · revision 1A community member

   Aug 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM UTC

10. Comment posted on definition 1 · revision 1Nguyen Thi

    Oct 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM UTC

    yes something can be both ferroelectric and ferromagnetic, it's a subset of both classes material