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polarity
  1. The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
  2. Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
  3. (chemistry) The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule.
  4. (grammar) The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative.
  5. (projective geometry) A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The above quotation exemplifies the polarity between action and writing.”
      “Among the system properties governing the transition from nonpolarity to polarity a prominent parameter is the rate of autocrine ligand release.”
      “Like Earth, the Sun has magnetic poles, but unlike Earth, the Sun's polarity is not constant.”
polaroid
  1. A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarised.
  2. (plural) Spectacles made with lenses of polaroid, once used to view certain 3-D movies.
  3. (plural) Polaroid sunglasses.
  4. A camera that develops its own film.
  5. A print from such a camera.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “I took a beautiful polaroid of the sunset at the beach using my vintage instant camera.”
      “He also works with Rawlins oil prints, gum Bichromates, cyanotypes and polaroid transfers, among others.”
      “Natural light is polarized in passage through a number of materials, the most common being polaroid.”
polarization
  1. the production, or the condition of polarity
  2. (physics) the production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points
  3. (chemistry) the separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system
  4. the grouping of opinions into two extremes
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The main factor inhibiting the involvement of the public is the polarization of the debate.”
      “The first is a different refraction for the two polarization components at the lens surfaces, which causes a ray bifurcation at each lens.”
      “Reading the data requires reproduction of both the wavefront and polarization.”
polarimetry
  1. (physics) The measurement of the polarization of electromagnetic radiation
  2. (chemistry) Analysis using a polarimeter
  3. Examples:
    1. “We studied polarimetry with wide-band filters and a simple instrument that took us six months to calibrate.”
      “In polarimetry, the polarization state of a light field can always be completely characterized by a Stokes vector and sometimes by a Jones vector.”
      “Through Lifan's lobbying, we are moving to include polarimetry as well.”
polarizer
  1. One who polarizes.
  2. (physics) Any device that produces polarized light.
  3. Examples:
    1. “A simple mounting consisting of a Nicol prism in a brass holder was found with the instrument and now serves as the polarizer.”
      “About 10 days later I documented a natural fogbow in sunlight from the laboratory, through a polarizer.”
      “I have tried to get these bright and vibrant colors with a polarizer filter but the colors were not enough.”
polaron
  1. (physics) The object that results when an electron (or hole) in the conduction band of a crystalline insulator or semiconductor polarizes the lattice in its vicinity.
polarimeter
  1. An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarized light as it passes through a sample of an optically active compound.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Circular dichroism spectra were measured in a Jasco-600 polarimeter with a bandwidth of 2 nm.”
      “Rotation angles were measured with a polarimeter on one-second integration interval.”
      “Propol is an automatic sugar polarimeter with an extremely high resolution of 0.0001° Optical Rotation.”
polarizability
  1. (physics) The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field
  2. Examples:
    1. “The introduction of voids into the structure would lower its polarizability.”
polarisation
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarization.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The danger now is a new polarisation born out of fear and defensiveness in us men.”
      “A modest economic recovery was staged, amid still decaying infrastructures and increasing social polarisation.”
      “Traditional harmony among communities has been replaced by polarisation and widespread horror.”
polariscopy
  1. The art or process of making observations with the polariscope.
polarisability
  1. Alternative spelling of polarizability
polariser
  1. Alternative spelling of polarizer
polariscope
  1. A polarimeter.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A simple polariscope may be made and the suspect glass object placed between the two sheets of polaroid, the second sheet having been rotated 90-degrees.”
      “If these give a positive result, we proceed to a quantitative examination by means of the polariscope.”
      “A color camera recorded five isoclinic images coupled with isochromatics from a plane polariscope with five different settings, respectively.”
polarisabilities
  1. plural of polarisability; Alternative spelling of polarizabilities
polarizabilities
  1. plural of polarizability
polarizations
polarisations
  1. plural of polarisation
polarimeters
polariscopes
polarimetries
  1. plural of polarimetry
polarisers
  1. plural of polariser
polarizers
  1. plural of polarizer
  2. Examples:
    1. “When viewed between crossed polarizers by polarized light microscopy such samples appear dark and featureless.”
      “The literature is full of other, more complicated ways to measure optical anisotropy, usually using a combination of polarizers and retarders.”
      “When polarization is a concern, linear and birefringent polarizers can be used to remove, reflect, or refract one of the polarization components.”
polaroids
  1. plural of polaroid
  2. Examples:
    1. “She went to see BWANA DEVIL and, after donning the polaroids, saw correctly.”
      “This Japanese tale of first love sounds simple, but then you find out that the film was shot in 16 mm, 8mm, video, Polaroids and digital photos.”
      “Gonzalo Ruffat's website has lots of blurry nudes, presented as if they were Polaroids.”
polarities
  1. plural of polarity
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It thrives on the tension between irreconcilable, exclusive, coexisting opposites and the unlikely polarities they represent.”
      “Yet, anyone who played with magnets as a child has felt how magnetic fields of like polarities repel each other.”
      “Self and not-self, subject and object, are not contradictories, but dialectical polarities.”
polarons
  1. plural of polaron
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