polarization

polarize | American Dictionary

polarize
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈpoʊ·ləˌrɑɪz/

polarizeverb[I/T] (DIVIDE OPINIONS)

to cause people in a group to have opposing positions:
[ T ]The property tax issue polarized the city council.

polarizeverb[I/T] (LIGHT)

[ T ] physics
to cause light to travel in a particular pattern, rather than going in all directions at once

polarization

noun[ U ]us/ˌpoʊ·lə·rəˈzeɪ·ʃən/

polarize | Business English

polarize
verb[ T ]
(UK alsopolarise)uk /ˈpəʊləraɪz/us
to cause people or opinions to be divided into two opposing groups:
The subject of interest rates continues to polarize the business community.

Examples of polarize

polarize
Dynamics of a charged particle in a circularly polarized traveling electromagnetic wave.
All photographs were taken dry using crossed polarizing filters to enhance contrast.
Two circularly polarized laser pulses of amplitude a = 7 and phase difference 51 = 0 illuminate the foil from opposite sides.
Further characterization of the protein secondary structure in purple membrane by circular dichroism and polarized infrared spectroscopies.
The inclusions in pastes are best studied by petrography with a polarizing microscope.
One is polarized in the plane of the paper of figure 8, the other perpendicular to with respect to the plane of the this.
The peri synaptic membranes were more deeply polarized when driven by clustered synapses, and least when driven by the unconfined distribution (second and third rows).
To illustrate this effect, we solve (1) numerically for right-hand polarized waves.
Finally, they are more likely to form if the party system is ideologically polarized and the electoral rules are disproportional.
The reflected light is linearly polarized in a 'horizontal' direction.
The oscillator beam passes an optical isolation, which prevents imperfectly polarized back traveling parts of the beam from entering the oscillator.
However, it takes into account all three velocity components, and therefore allows us to treat oblique incidence of arbitrarily polarized laser beams.
She argues that the historical novel and the annalistic national tale have an intertwined genealogy, with "highly polarized" "political implications" (131).
The difference between the diagonal components is larger in magnitude than the off-diagonal components, implying that the natural modes are nearly linearly polarized.
Using a linear polarized laser we have to deal with two numerical dimensions for each electron.
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