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polarization

[poh-ler-uh-zey-shuhn] / ˌpoʊ lər əˈzeɪ ʃən /


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Researchers also found that the direction of that polarization remained aligned with 1E 1547's magnetic field, just as its radio waves did.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

It’s not a silver bullet that cures polarization, settles complicated policy debates or ensures that everyone gets along.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

They also hope to identify experimental signals that could reveal the influence of acceleration, including patterns in hyperon spin polarization.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

To Ilana Redstone, a sociologist who specializes in political polarization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sociology’s troubles gained traction through the 1971 Supreme Court decision, Griggs vs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

"Spatially variable birefringence, that is, the difference in the propagation of different polarizations of light, acts like a synthetic magnetic field," explains Dr. Piotr Kapuściński of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

Two photons can be entangled so that each is in an uncertain both-ways state, but their polarizations are correlated so that if one is horizontal the other must be vertical and vice versa.

From Science Magazine Jul. 20, 2022

“It may create a divide between the transitional government and the public. We are looking for a decent discussion based on the interests of Sudan without any polarizations or accusations.”

From Washington Post Sep. 30, 2020

These “qubits” might be made of photons that are in a combination of two different polarizations.

From Scientific American Sep. 28, 2019

Heat, light, electricity, magnetism, are by some regarded as specific fluids; by others, as undulations of one or more specific fluid; and by a third class, as undulations or polarizations of ordinary matter.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various




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