polarization
- Noun. the production, or the condition of polarity.
- Noun. (physics) the production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points.
- Noun. (context, chemistry) the separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system.
- Noun. the grouping of opinions into two extremes.
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