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: --
Using a linear polarized laser we have to deal with two numerical dimensions for each electron.
The difference between the diagonal components is larger in magnitude than the off-diagonal components, implying that the natural modes are nearly linearly polarized.
She argues that the historical novel and the annalistic national tale have an intertwined genealogy, with "highly polarized" "political implications" (131).
However, it takes into account all three velocity components, and therefore allows us to treat oblique incidence of arbitrarily polarized laser beams.
The oscillator beam passes an optical isolation, which prevents imperfectly polarized back traveling parts of the beam from entering the oscillator.
The reflected light is linearly polarized in a 'horizontal' direction.
Finally, they are more likely to form if the party system is ideologically polarized and the electoral rules are disproportional.
To illustrate this effect, we solve (1) numerically for right-hand polarized waves.
