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Noun: ferroelectric material
  1. A material posessing a property of spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by the application of an external electric field.
    "In addition to being nonlinear, ferroelectric materials demonstrate a spontaneous nonzero polarization (after entrainment, see figure) even when the applied field E is zero."

Type of: dielectric, insulator, nonconductor, piezoelectric material

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