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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
electric susceptibility
tensor relationship between the electric field vector and the electric polarization vector in a medium with no hysteresis. It is the polarization divided by the permittivity of free space and the electric
field in scalar media.
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).
susceptibility
the part of the permittivity or permeability that is attributable to the electromagnetic behavior of the medium. In a linear, isotropic medium, the electric susceptibility is numerically equal to the relative permittivity minus one, and the magnetic susceptibility is equal to the relative permeability minus one. See also electric susceptibility.