Polarisation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarization. UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable

    "One wonders whether such an event, a conscious, improbable-but-made-probable event, took place at the time of creation, the act itself being nothing but a polarisation (or separation quality-wise) of the attributeless Nirguna, a separation of zero plus x and minus x. This is indeed the genesis of the Big Bang theory of science."

  2. 2
    the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration wordnet
  3. 3
    the condition of having or giving polarity wordnet

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"One wonders whether such an event, a conscious, improbable-but-made-probable event, took place at the time of creation, the act itself being nothing but a polarisation (or separation quality-wise) of the attributeless Nirguna, a separation of zero plus x and minus x. This is indeed the genesis of the Big Bang theory of science."

Etymology

Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarise + -ation or polar + -isation.

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