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- English Word Polarchy Definition See Polyarchy.
- English Word Polaric Definition See Polar.
- English Word Polarily Definition In a polary manner; with polarity.
- English Word Polarimeter Definition An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.
- English Word Polarimetry Definition The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.
- English Word Polaris Definition The polestar. See North star, under North.
- English Word Polariscope Definition An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.
- English Word Polariscopic Definition Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations.
- English Word Polariscopy Definition The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
- English Word Polaristic Definition Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.
- English Word Polarity Definition That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.
- English Word Polarity Definition A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.
- English Word Polarizable Definition Susceptible of polarization.
- English Word Polarization Definition The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.
- English Word Polarization Definition A peculiar affection or condition of the rays of light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different properties in different directions.
- English Word Polarization Definition An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell.
- English Word Polarize Definition To communicate polarity to.
- English Word Polarized Definition of Polarize
- English Word Polarizer Definition That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal.
- English Word Polarizing Definition of Polarize