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What is the adjective for polarisation?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs polarize and polarise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

polar
  1. Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole).
  2. (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
  3. (chemistry) Having a dipole; ionic.
  4. (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
  5. (linguistics) Having but two possible answers, yes and no.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Though both the Antarctic and Arctic are high latitude, freezing polar regions, the similarities end there.”
      “This book covers the recent developments in seismology in polar regions.”
      “In the technological revolution that digital video has brought to filmmaking, these two works represent polar opposites of the brave new world.”
polarized
polarimetric
  1. (physics) Of or pertaining to polarimetry, or measured using a polarimeter
  2. Examples:
    1. “Several difficulties arise from using a conventional light microscope for polarimetric studies.”
      “In the lab, however, people are now using more polarimetric techniques because they let them calculate all polarization states.”
      “Anisotropy can be used in combination with polarimetric entropy H in classification.”
polarised
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarized.
polaristic
  1. Relating to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition.
polariscopic
  1. Of or pertaining to the polariscope.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Steam treatment of tissue sections in citrate buffer at pH 6.0 did not increase the polariscopic refractivity of the organism.”
polarisable
  1. Alternative spelling of polarizable
polarigenic
  1. That generates polarization
polaronic
  1. Of or pertaining to polarons.
polarizable
  1. Able to be polarized
  2. Examples:
    1. “The formation of a bleach continuum suggests the presence of a polarizable proton in the ground state that changes during the photocycle.”
      “There were large amounts of polarizable foreign body material contained within the membranes and maternal decidua, without associated inflammation or tissue reaction.”
      “Another active area of biophysical research concerns the study of the interactions involving charged, polar and polarizable groups of atoms in proteins.”
polary
  1. (obsolete) Tending towards a pole.
polarizing
  1. That polarizes
polaric
  1. (archaic) polar
polarising
  1. present participle of polarise
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