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Meaning of Polarization | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən

Definitions

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

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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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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