Polarization

Definitions

1. The production or the condition of polarity.
   countable, uncountable
2. The grouping of opinions into two extremes.
   countable, uncountable
3. The production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points.
   countable, uncountable
4. The separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The subtopologies that we discovered include⟳: a glide-symmetric analog of the quantum spin⟳ Hall effect, an hourglass-flow topology (exemplified by our recently-proposed KHgSb material class), and quantized non-Abelian polarizations.”

“What frazzled pollsters, surly op-ed pages, snarling cable talkfests and issue-starved candidates for office need⟳ is a fresh source of hot-eyed national polarization.”

“Polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world, from Brazil and India to Poland and Turkey.”

“We don’t usually notice⟳ polarization because direct⟳ sunlight and light⟳ from ordinary incandescent and fluorescent bulbs is unpolarized: it contains equal mixtures of horizontally and vertically polarized light⟳.”

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