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polarization | Business English

polarization
noun[ U ]
(UK alsopolarisation)uk /ˌpəʊləraɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /ˌpəʊlərəˈzeɪʃən/
the fact of people or opinions being divided into two opposing groups:
There is now more polarization and less cooperation between the political parties.

Examples of polarization

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Polarization of congressional parties emerges as the ideological distribution of congressional seats changes.
The second pulse, depending on its phase with respect to the polarization oscillation, can enhance or destroy the residual system excitation.
In this method it is not necessary to consider polarization vectors and eigenvalues of dispersion matrices around coupling points.
Finally, the microscopic expression for the self-consistent potential and the polarization density is obtained.
Only when natural patterns of electoral loss and retirement replaced these legislators did congressional party polarization re-emerge.
We shall address two-dimensional features in the context of grey-scale plots of polarization and density-magnetic-energy correlations.
For linear fluctuations the two linearly independent polarizations of v are uncoupled.
Figure 1 clearly indicates that more disproportional electoral systems increase the probability of electoral coalition formation at all levels of party system polarization.
The first dispersion relation is the classical whistler mode, known to have a right-handed polarization.
This article does not, however, explain the decline in polarization in the 1950s - a separate project focuses on that.
The horizontal axis corresponds to wavelength, the vertical axis to polarization, and the grey scale gives the fluorescence intensity.
The horizontal axis gives the wavenumber, the vertical axis the angle of the polarization of the incident light, and the intensity is colour coded.
In short, colonial developmentalism was a partial, but powerful, answer to the pressures of increasing imperial penury, colonial protests and global polarization.
An examination of historical trends in party polarization reveals a striking divergence between presidential and congressional elections around the mid-1960s.
We show that the attosecond pulse emission can be efficiently controlled by managing the laser polarization.
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