Dictionary of Electrical Engineering

Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.

electromagnetic susceptibility
a device's failure to perform appropriately if there is an electromagnetic disturbance.
magnetic susceptibility
the ratio of the magnetization to the applied external field.

Tensor relationship between the magnetic field vector and the magnetization vector in a medium with no hysteresis; magnetization divided by the permeability of free space and the magnetic field in scalar media. It is an indicator of how easily a material is magnetized and has no units in the SI system of units (pure number).