Definitions
the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration
Word origin
Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarize + -ation or polar + -ization.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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