Polarization

/ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/

Synonyms for "polarization" (64 found)

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Noun(7 words)
dichotomiesdielectric responsedipole alignmentdividingdivisivenessideological polarizationideological split

Related words (32)

Noun(7 words)
light polarizationoptical polarizationpolarisationpolaritiespolarizingspin alignmentspin polarization
magnetic axismagnetic polemagnetic repulsionmisunderstandingmutual repulsionn polenegative polenorth poleoddsopposingoppositionopposurepolar oppositionpolaritypoleposing againstpositive polerepellencerepellencyrepelling
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repulsions polesouth polevariance
Adjective(1 words)
political discord

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More general

13 entries
conditiongroup dynamicsmagnetismoptical phenomenonoptics propertyphenomenonphysical propertyprocesssocial processsociology conceptspin propertystatuswave property

More specific

11 entries
circular polarizationcultural polarizationeconomic polarizationelectronic polarizationelliptical polarizationfull spin polarizationionic polarizationlinear polarizationpartial spin polarizationpolitical polarizationreligious polarization

Collocations

6 entries
circular polarizationdegree of polarizationelliptical polarizationlinear polarizationpolarization planepolarization state

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Translations

15 translations across 15 languages.

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Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • qütbləşmə noun (production or condition of polarity)

Catalan

1 entries
  • polarització noun (production or condition of polarity)

French

1 entries
  • polarisation noun (production or condition of polarity)

Galician

1 entries
  • polarización noun (production or condition of polarity)

German

1 entries
  • Polarisierung noun (production or condition of polarity)

Greek

1 entries
  • πόλωση noun (production or condition of polarity)

Hindi

1 entries
  • ध्रुवीकरण noun (production or condition of polarity)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • polarizáció noun (production or condition of polarity)

Italian

1 entries
  • polarizzazione noun (production or condition of polarity)

Polish

1 entries
  • polaryzacja noun (production or condition of polarity)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • polarização noun (production or condition of polarity)

Russian

1 entries
  • поляриза́ция noun (production or condition of polarity)

Spanish

1 entries
  • polarización noun (production or condition of polarity)

Swedish

1 entries
  • polarisering noun (production or condition of polarity)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • sataluktok noun (production or condition of polarity)

Sample sentences

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The subtopologies that we discovered include: a glide-symmetric analog of the quantum spin Hall effect, an hourglass-flow topology (exemplified by our recently-proposed KHgSb material class), and quantized non-Abelian polarizations.

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What frazzled pollsters, surly op-ed pages, snarling cable talkfests and issue-starved candidates for office need is a fresh source of hot-eyed national polarization.

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Polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world, from Brazil and India to Poland and Turkey.

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We don’t usually notice polarization because direct sunlight and light from ordinary incandescent and fluorescent bulbs is unpolarized: it contains equal mixtures of horizontally and vertically polarized light.

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