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Definition of Polarised
1. Adjective. (British) Describing something that possesses a distinctive polarisation. ¹
2. Adjective. (British) Describing a group or situation characterized by being at two (or more) extremes. ¹
3. Adjective. (alternative spelling of polarized) ¹
4. Verb. (past of polarise) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polarised
1. polarise [v] - See also: polarise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polarised
Literary usage of Polarised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of Light by Thomas Preston (1912)
"Conversely, if the incident light be circularly polarised, the rhomb introduces a
... Hence, generally, if a ray of light originally plane-polarised in an ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"Reflection of Polarised Heat. ;larisation of heat is caused when polarised heat
is transmitted through a piece of avv glass placed between the poles of a ..."
3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"The light refracted through the glass is also plane-polarised, but its properties
... The reflected light is said to be polarised in the plane of incidence, ..."
4. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"A beam of plane-polarised light falling on a polariser will, should the plane in
which its vibrations are executed happen to coincide with the plane of ..."
5. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1911)
"Interference of Polarised Light.—By placing two plates of tourmaline, so that
each is traversed by the rays passing through one half of Fresnel's biprism, ..."
6. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"In 1877 Kerr discovered that, when a beam of light polarised in or at right Angles
to the plane of incidence is reflected from the magnetised polished pole ..."
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