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Definition of Depolarize
1. Verb. Eliminate the polarization of.
Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Depolarisation, Depolarization
Definition of Depolarize
1. v. t. To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
Definition of Depolarize
1. Verb. To remove the polarization from something ¹
2. Verb. To demagnetize ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depolarize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depolarize
Literary usage of Depolarize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Human Anatomy by John Gordon (1815)
"... recently ascertained by this most ingenious and successful inquirer, that
Hairs depolarize Light, and possess the most perfect neutral axes; ..."
2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Out of seven specimens of diamond, four did not depolarize; one depolarized about
one fifth of the light, one about one half, and one nearly all the light ..."
3. Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday (1855)
"When it does depolarize, difference of position ... By always referring to the
parts that do not depolarize, as the black cross, for instance, ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1877)
"... the central portions of the mass having no power to depolarize the light,
while the marginal portions depolarize it in such manner as to indicate a ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"At this point the acid is too weak to depolarize and must be renewed. At the
most, only 65 per cent, of the acid can be used before the liquid has become ..."
6. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1815)
"The various modes in which bodies depolarize light may be reduced to seven. 1.
When the crystal possesses neutral axes, and formi two images which are ..."
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