polarization
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarize + -ation or polar + -ization.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]polarization (countable and uncountable, plural polarizations)
- The production or the condition of polarity.
- 2016, A. Alexandradinata, Zhijun Wang, B. Andrei Bernevig, “Topological Insulators from Group Cohomology”, in arXiv[1]:
- 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.
- (sociology) The grouping of opinions into two extremes.
- 2004 June 2, William Safire, “Abolish the Penny”, in The New York Times[2]:
- 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.
- 2019 October 1, Thomas Carothers, Andrew O’Donohue, “How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization”, in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace[3], archived from the original on 2023-02-14:
- Polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world, from Brazil and India to Poland and Turkey.
- (physics) The production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points.
- (chemistry, physics) The separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]production or condition of polarity
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grouping of opinions into two extremes
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production of polarized light
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separation of positive and negative charges
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