0 to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups:
Two developments have polarized the debate.
1 to make light waves move in one direction only, or mainly in one direction:
3 to cause light to travel in a particular pattern, rather than going in all directions at once
4 to cause people or opinions to be divided into two opposing groups:
Dynamics of a charged particle in a circularly polarized traveling electromagnetic wave.
All photographs were taken dry using crossed polarizing filters to enhance contrast.
Two circularly polarized laser pulses of amplitude a = 7 and phase difference 51 = 0 illuminate the foil from opposite sides.
Further characterization of the protein secondary structure in purple membrane by circular dichroism and polarized infrared spectroscopies.
The inclusions in pastes are best studied by petrography with a polarizing microscope.
One is polarized in the plane of the paper of figure 8, the other perpendicular to with respect to the plane of the this.
The peri synaptic membranes were more deeply polarized when driven by clustered synapses, and least when driven by the unconfined distribution (second and third rows).
To illustrate this effect, we solve (1) numerically for right-hand polarized waves.
