0 the act of dividing something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, into two completely opposing groups:
1 the act of making light waves move in one direction only, or mainly in one direction:
2 the fact of people or opinions being divided into two opposing groups:
There is now more polarization and less cooperation between the political parties.
The polarization of wealth in the past 20 years has been extreme.
In these days of increasing polarization, it's easy to regard those on the other side of the argument as evil.
Polarization of congressional parties emerges as the ideological distribution of congressional seats changes.
The second pulse, depending on its phase with respect to the polarization oscillation, can enhance or destroy the residual system excitation.
In this method it is not necessary to consider polarization vectors and eigenvalues of dispersion matrices around coupling points.
Finally, the microscopic expression for the self-consistent potential and the polarization density is obtained.
Only when natural patterns of electoral loss and retirement replaced these legislators did congressional party polarization re-emerge.